- 23-time major champ faces No 2 seed in possible singles farewell
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Beau will be here shortly, with the match due to start around 7.30pm local time (9.30am AEST/12.30am BST). Meanwhile, here’s a bit of pre-match reading:
Sparkling Serena Williams overcomes tepid start to delight US Open crowd. In her first-round match the 23-times major singles champion won another chance to engineer one last signature moment at Flushing Meadows
Serena Williams’ unapologetic greatness is a beacon to Black girls everywhere. Serena showed Black girls like my daughters that they have to be confident and proud of themselves, says NBA veteran Etan Thomas
Farewell is an eloquent acknowledgement of biological inequality. Williams’s career is ending before it would if she were a male player, simply because she must choose between tennis and having more children, says Andy Bull.
They couldn’t touch her: how Serena Williams became a rare legend. Prejudice and hostility stalked her through a career of scarcely believable achievement, one that reflected much about the US
