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Serena Williams takes the court Monday night for her first match of what’s anticipated to be her last U.S. Open.
Williams will face Danka Kovinic at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows in New York City — the site of Williams’ first U.S. Open win in 1999, when she was 17.
Earlier this month, Williams, now 40, announced her plans to retire from tennis, after a decades-long career in which she dominated and transformed the women’s game and that includes 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
« With her powerful serve and return of serve and athleticism, she really set that standard in the women’s game, » NPR’s Tom Goldman told Morning Edition.
« Her story of the early years in Compton, California, with sister Venus, under the tutelage of their dad, ‘King Richard,’ now of movie fame, that all became part of her legend and paved the way for more young people of color to pursue what had traditionally been a white sport, » Goldman said.
