What's it like in the locker room? 'It's not like Mean Girls'

IN THEIR most recent open presentation of kinship, Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki posted a photograph of accomplishing their nails before the Australian Open.

The kinship, in a game better known for its contentions, has incited exchange among players on what its similar to in the locker room and in the background with top ladies' tennis stars.

Is everybody companions? The answer: it depends who you ask.

The No. 7-positioned Eugenie Bouchard likes to avoid contenders as much as possible.

"I would prefer not to wind up decent companions with any of the young ladies on the visit," said the Wimbledon finalist. "I come here, do my occupation, and clear out. I feel that is the most ideal path for me to stay centered and not by any means have preoccupations."

That may clarify this excellent photograph taken a short time once again of Australian Open quarter-last adversaries Bouchard and Maria Sharapova, among others...

Asked what its similar to in the locker room, Bouchard giggled.

"I'm certain you envision 'Mean Girls' or something. It's not like that," said the 20-year-old. Canadian, alluding to Hollywood's interpretation of a gutless secondary school club. "It's pretty chill, really loose. We're all agreeable and conversing with one another."

For what its justified even despite, "Mean Girls" happens to be Bouchard's most loved film.

The No. 1-positioned Williams, who is known for having a portion of the most elevated profile competitions on the visit, says the temperament has changed since she joined the expert positions route back in the 90s.

"It's similar to an enormous family now," said Williams, who at 33 is pushing for her nineteenth fantastic pummel title and hints at no facilitating her predominance. She became an adult amid an alternate time, reviewing that opponents Steffi Graf and Monica Seles "never talked".

"When you're youthful, you truly adore those individuals. I needed to do what they did. I was truly calm. I did my own thing," Serena told a news gathering at the Australian Open. "I simply attempted to duplicate them."

Caroline Wozniacki and Serena Williams accomplish their nails together.

Caroline Wozniacki and Serena Williams accomplish their nails together. Source: Instagram

Presently, things are diverse, incompletely on the grounds that players fraternize because of the pressed timetable of competitions year-round.

"I doubtlessly think individuals talk a tiny bit more now than back in the 90s," said Williams. "We travel 10, 11 months of the year together. So you simply know everybody."

Social networking has assumed a huge part in opening a window into the players' private lives, with numerous presenting remarks on one another or photos of their off-court kinships.

The previous No. 1-player Wozniacki, who left in the second round of the current year's Australian Open, imparted the picture of herself and Williams getting pedicures the weekend prior to the competition began.

Gotten some information about contending with a companion at the top level, Wozniacki later said: "At whatever point you're on court, you simply need to win. It doesn't make a difference who is on the other side."

The two companions went head to head in an amazing hammer last finally year's US Open, which Williams won. After two days, Wozniacki appeared to help Williams at her first runway show amid New York Fashion Week.

Williams then live tweeted from the New York City Marathon as she rooted for Wozniacki, who ran an amazing 3 hours and 26 minutes.

"Is it accurate to say that it is ordinary to cry when somebody completed (a) marathon? So pleased with you Caro," Williams tweeted after the race. The two have been spotted at the shoreline, hockey games, b-ball games and shows.


Williams has been cited as saying that Wozniacki is her closest companion on the circuit other than her sister, Venus.

Regularly, however, strained contentions remain, and Williams doesn't like to discuss them. There was incredible theory about Williams' clearly frosty association with Sloane Stephens, after the adolescent American upset the No. 1-positioned player in the 2013 Australian Open quarter-last.

No. 2 Maria Sharapova has openly said she has no companions on the ladies' visit. She and Williams have long had a not really well disposed competition that stood out as truly newsworthy in 2013 when the pair exchanged individual spikes identifying with their sentimental connections.

Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka says her point of view has changed through the years, and she needs to get to know more players.

"Not that I wasn't amicable, however its pleasant to get to know young ladies," said Azarenka, unseeded here in light of the fact that her positioning fell before the end of last year amid a harm cutback.

"On the court there are no companions, unless there are umpires you attempt to be more pleasant to," the 25-year-old Azarenka said.

At the same time off the court, she might want to "endeavor" and construct companionships — conceivably with Sharapova or different players who have homes close to her in the Los Angeles region.

"I haven't hit with any young ladies yet," Azarenka said. "I know Maria exists there. At the same time we haven't hit yet. Assuredly, perhaps one day it will happe