At the 2001 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, Serena and her sister Venus were booed by crowds who accused them of fixing a game when Venus had to withdraw from a semifinal match.
The mostly White crowd taunted them with racist slurs and Serena responded by boycotting the event for more than a decade. She only just returned in 2015.
Serena Williams Claps Back At Reporter’s Sexist Comments For The Umpteenth Time was originally published on globalgrind.com
