WATCH: "I'm the puppet master" - Venus Williams enjoys seeing opponents smash racquets

| by Evita Mueller

While mainly frowned upon in the tennis community, breaking racquets gives Venus Williams joy when she sees her opponent doing it.

Venus Williams and her coach Eric Hechtman spoke in a recent video on her youtube channel. Williams said in the video that she enjoys it when her rivals lose their composure and shatter their racquets. She feels like a puppeteer because of it.

"I love to see someone smash their racquet, especially against me," said Williams with a joyful tone in her voice:

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"It's like, 'Oh, just come, go ahead, go come undone, just unravel', and it's like this is all my doing and I am like I am the puppet master. You know, like I am Geppetto."

It was all part of her tennis pet peeves which also includes toilet breaks.

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