Maria Sharapova was not pleased when Serena Williams apparent dig on her personal life in a recent interview. The 26-year-old Russian tennis player said that the American court diva should talk about her own chaotic love life if she wanted people to talk about her.

While being interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine, Williams, 31, answered the phone and talked to older sister and fellow tennis champ Venus. During the phone call, Williams talked about an unnamed top-five player, and the interviewer, Stephen Rodrick surmised that they were speaking about Sharapova, who is now dating one of Williams' rumoured ex-boyfriends, Grigor Dimitrov.

"She begins every interview with 'I'm so happy. I'm so lucky' - it's so boring," Williams was heard by the interviewer as saying to her sister. "She's still not going to be invited to the cool parties. And, hey, if she wants to be with the guy with a black heart, go for it."

In her pre-tournament news conference on Sunday, Williams has revealed that she approached Sharapova to say sorry over the things she said in the Rolling Stone interview. She said that the younger player accepted her apology, but that didn't seem to be the case on Saturday when the Russian player held her own news conference.

"If she wants to talk about something personal, maybe she should talk about her relationship, and her boyfriend that was married, and is getting a divorce and has kids," she said.

Sharapova was referring to Williams' coach and boyfriend, Patrick Mouratoglou.

That's not all she had to say. Sharapova, who has not beaten Williams in court for nine years, also targeted her court opponent for the Grand Slam title holder's comments on the Steubenville rape case, in which a 16-year-old girl was raped by her high school peers after she got drunk.

Williams made headlines last week when it was learned she called the victim "lucky" because the victim could have gotten much worse. She also questioned why the girl didn't remember what happened to her, and somehow gave the impression that she was blaming her for getting drunk in the first place.

Williams has since apologised for her remarks, saying that she wasn't blaming the victim in any way.

The sorry apparently wasn't good enough for Sharapova, who said that Williams "should be talking about her accomplishments, her achievements, rather than everything else that's just getting attention and controversy."

"I definitely was told of the comments," Williams said in her press con of Sharapova's statement on her love life. "I definitely like to keep my personal life personal. I think it would be inappropriate for me to comment on it. But yeah, I've always, in the past, you guys have known that I've kept my personal and professional life very private. I'm going to continue to do that."

As for Sharapova's remark that Williams should be focusing on tennis instead, Williams said, "I feel like that is another thing I can definitely take her advice on."

Williams and Sharapova are not expected to play against each other until they reach the finals at Wimbledon this year. Williams will be playing against Mandy Minella of Luxembourg on Tuesday.

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