Sloane Stephens is no fan of tennis megastar Serena Williams as of late, a new interview with ESPN revealed.
Stephens, ranked 17 in the world, told ESPN Magazine that Williams, currently No.1 in the world in tennis, has not spoken a word to her ever since she beat Williams in the Australian Open quarterfinals in a stunning upset.
"She's not said one word to me, not spoken to me, not said hi, not looked my way, not been in the same room with me since I played her in Australia," Stephens said in a interview prior to the U.S. Fed Cup win over Sweden, as Tennis.com reports. "And that should tell everyone something, how she went from saying all these nice things about me to unfollowing me on Twitter."
Both Williams and Stephens were teammates on the U.S. Fed Cup team.
According to SI.com, Sloane's mother tried to slow her daughter down during the ESPN interview, but Loane brought up a tweet that Williams sent two days after the quarterfinal match.
While the tweet was not directed at anyone, Sloane believes that Williams' tweet, "I made you," was directed at her.
"Like, seriously! People should know," Stephens told the magazine. "They think she's so friendly and she's so this and she's so that - no, that's not reality! You don't unfollow someone on Twitter, delete them off of BlackBerry Messenger. I mean, what for? Why?"
Stephens also laid to rest the notions that Williams and her shared a close bond. In fact, she recalled one particular incident when she was 12 and waited for Serena and her sister Venys during the Fed Cup in Delray Beach, Fla., for an autograph.
"I waited all day [for an autograph]," she explains. "They walked by three times and never signed our posters."
"I hung it up [in my room] for a while. I was, like, devastated because they didn't sign it, whatever, and then after that I was over it. I found a new player to like because I didn't like them anymore."
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