Victoria Azarenka

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Serena’s father authored an autobiography that doesn’t mention tennis until 150 pages in. Up until that point, it is an account of “his defiance against white people”—his words. He calls Christmas a holiday created by white people, and the fact that his daughters are good runners is due to his own running away from white oppressors in the South. What I find surprising is that the book did not win a Pulitzer Prize in view of the race climate in America and Europe at present. He also attributes the dazzling deeds of his daughters to his gathering of ghetto children to shout racial slurs at them while they practiced. Yeah, right, and Taki might still win Wimbledon in the future.

Sport was once upon a time not political. Today expressing anything that can be construed as orthodoxy is hate speech. Ever the Luddite, I disagree. Serena is an all-time great, but I’ll pick Steffi and Eugenie over her, one on grace, the other on looks. See ya!