Serena Williams rejects idea 24th title would be cheapened by thin field

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Serena Williams rejects idea 24th title would be cheapened by thin field

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Serena Williams is not concerned that finally breaking through for her record-tying 24th major singles title at this year’s US Open would be cheapened by the thinned-out field as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

“It still has to be tennis that’s played, asterisks or not,” Williams said on Friday during a Zoom conference before the Western & Southern Open, which usually takes place in Cincinnati but starts this week in New York. “I think this whole year deserves an asterisk, because it’s such a special year, history we have never been through in this world, to be honest, not this generation, not this lifetime. It’s just in history, period.

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