Serena Williams shuts down reporter who asked why she wasn't smiling

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Brian Koerber
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Serena Williams has had enough with your dumb questions, sports reporters.

During a press conference after the tennis star defeated her sister Venus Williams during the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday, advancing her to the semifinals, Serena was asked an odd, prying question and responded magnificently.

"You just won a match. Normally you smile when you win. You come in here, you laugh," the reporter says. "What happens tonight? Is it because you beat Venus or because you're thinking about what is going on next? What’s wrong?”

Serena responds, "It's 11:30. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't want to be here. I just want to be in bed right now and I have to wake up early to practice and I don't want to answer any of these questions. And you keep asking me the same questions. It's not really ... you're not making it super enjoyable."

"Just being honest," Serena admits. But the reporter wasn't done. He attempted to ask another question, and Serena cuts him off. "Is it about Venus again?"

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