Caroline Wozniacki, the 22-year-old Dane ranked 10th in the world, teased American Serena Williams (ranked third) during a recent match against Maria Sharapova in Brazil, stuffing towels down her outfit to imitate Williams' curves.
In a press conference after the game, Wozniacki explainined the Brazil crowd is always "open and they have a lot of fun."
Not everyone enjoyed the joke. From Feministing:
Making fun of somebody’s body is inappropriate, sexist, offensive and problematic. But given the history and current-day context of racialized standards of beauty, and the hypersexualization of people of color, when a white woman makes fun of a black women’s body, especially in a way that hypersexualizes her and draws on the stereotype of black women’s big butts, it’s racist.
It's worth noting that Andy Roddick and Novak Djokovic have both pulled similar stunts:
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But remind us, Serena, who won Olympic gold this summer?
