Man, all I can do is shake my head after reading this b.s. article.

The American media turned on Serena Williams on Wednesday, labelling the former world number one as “classless” and “graceless” after her sullen reaction to her U.S. Open exit at the hands of Justine Henin.

“(Williams) met the media afterward like a rattlesnake meets a ground squirrel,” wrote Bill Dwyer, in the Los Angeles Times.

“If anybody was expecting perspective afterward, or maybe a gracious nod to a better effort by an opponent, forget it. We had sullen Serena. Snippy Serena. Snarly Serena.”

In the New York Times, under the headline, “Williams needs a lesson in etiquette”, Selena Roberts wrote: “Who’s classless now?

“The grumpy, borderline nasty disposition that Williams displayed after her loss was a little jarring considering she had her own lack of preparation to blame for giving in so easily to Henin.

“Serena was bitter, angry and upset. She directed some of that at Henin. Who could use charm school now?”

In an interview with USA Network, which hosts television coverage of the U.S. Open, John Wertheim, the senior writer for Sports Illustrated magazine, described Serena’s reaction as “stunning”.

Since, when are athletes non-human saints.

Since when is showing humanity a disgrace.

She likes to win. She is pressured to win. She puts all her efforts in this thing. Why should she be expected to have perspective when she is still stinging from the loss?

But more importantly, why does the media feel the need to vilify her? Why gossip like some old hens because she didn’t smile and curtsy at your stupid @ss questions.

Why expect Serena to do or be more than you are willing to be? Are you showing any class by forming a lynch mob and bashing a young woman when she’s down? No. All you are doing is exploiting someone’s misery for your own selfish gains.

Get it together girl. We all fail short of goals. We all lose perspective and just want to sit back and lick our wounds. But it is what you choose to do next that counts.