Serena Williams has been a professional athlete longer than she has not—she turned pro at fourteen and is now thirty—yet she has never been allowed to be simply an athlete. She has served as a totem for issues relating to race, class, celebrity, sibling rivalry, family conflict, and body image. The last of those threatened to overshadow her latest run to a Grand Slam title…

Reeves Wiedeman on Serena Williams: Just a Tennis Player, Finally: http://nyr.kr/Qfy2d6

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