What has genetics got to do with tennis? More than what meets the racquet sport.Witness: family ties in the form of Venus and Serena Williams, two sisters who traded skewers and flyspecks not just on their march to the top of women’s tennis, but also on their way up the ladder towards tennis stardom.
That the duo made history twenty-two years—the first sisters to win WTA tour events on the same day—is what dreams are made of, but seldom fulfilled. The backdrop. When Venus made short work of Amanda Coetzer in straight sets (6-4, 6-0), at the IGA Superthrift Tennis Classic, while defending her title with easy flourish, Serena knocked the stuffing out of AmélieMauresmo(6-2, 3-6, 7-6 [7-4]), to romp home to a well-deserved victory in the Gaz de France Open. Add to that yet another visage of Serena having procured a new dimension of being the first American to win the tourney and you had a great script for the future—a scroll like no other. This wasn’t all. They also entered the record books by becoming the first players, male or female, in tennis history to win four Olympic gold medals (London 2012).
Serena, after a few ups and downs, during this time, was quite easily the most improved player. She’s not only in a league of her own, she’s no longer the glitzy, brash, inconstant performer—but a feared prospect and opponent. Her brand of consistency and array of ground-strokes had not only improved, but also ‘engineered’ her game with a purpose—to a level of immense strength with a prudent mix of power and dash.
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