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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: