'Serena was the greatest women’s player of her generation, possibly of all time. But even that sort of undersells how much she changed her sport. And how much it needed to be changed,' writes williamfleitch
. And he wasn’t alone. A whole bunch of the same people who were celebrating Serena last night desperately wanted her and her sister to go away when they first arrived. The Williams sisters — and, specifically, their dad — were seen as a blight on tennis when they arrived in the late ‘90s, too brash, too unrefined and, mostly, too Black; their very presence was seen as an affront to the sport itself.
The Williams sisters changed their sport nearly as much as they changed themselves over the years, particularly Serena, who went from an anxious little sister antsy about interviewing German tennis player Tommy Haas to not just an all-time tennis great, but
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