In a new YouTube video IShowSpeed faced Serena Williams with a 6-0 head start. That meant he only needed 2 more points to win!
Instead, she scored 8 straight points and never let him score again.
In a tiebreak at Ballenlsles Country Club in Florida, part of IShowSpeed’s ‘Speed Goes Pro’ series with Dick’s Sporting Goods, Williams handed the streamer a 6-0 advantage before rallying for the win while staying relaxed.
She later said she felt bored rather than worried, calling him ‘So cute’ amid his errors and struggles returning serves.
The match shows the high skill gap between pros like the 23-time Grand Slam champion and amateurs, even when the amateur is above average in athletics.
Viewers loved the segment, saying
“The gap between a PRO and an average person in any sport is genuinely insane. You don’t realise just how different their levels are until you see them side by side.”
another saying
“No sport will humble you like tennis. It makes almost all non-tennis players, regardless of athleticism, look like they have the motor skills of a village drunkard in some early Irish novel”
and another saying
“She basically used this game to warm up her wrist 😭
I like that they did this, cuz everyone knows Speed’s athletic prowess. But being a pro in a sport is a different level of beast and certain delusional clowns don’t seem to get this.”
So could Speed go pro in tennis? Well, Serena says probably not
“You absolutely DO NOT have what it takes to go pro in tennis. But you could be a person that follows someone on tour. You could be maybe a trainer, a motivator.”
Do you think you’d have a better chance?
