Wimbledon

  • Venus and Serena Rise Above the Sister Thing

    You would think that in all my years of covering sports that I would have run into more than one notable sibling rivalry. If I did, it couldn’t have been all that notable since I don’t remember it. Only one stood out and still endures and that’s Venus and Serena Williams, who will meet Saturday for the fourth time in a Wimbledon final.

    It used to be a joke, Williams vs. Williams, and one I couldn’t defend.

    Here’s the first half of a column I wrote in July of 2000: