These are the women who have given everything
In Andre Agassi’s incredible coach jewelry memoir, Open, he talks about the complicated relationship with a game that earned him fame and fortune – and that he grew to hate.
If we can go to work and enjoy doing what we do, we are very lucky indeed. A lot of people are bored and unhappy in their occupations but, like Serena, they do them so they can pay the bills and afford the hobbies or pastimes that give their lives meaning.
If I had been forced to play tennis from the age of 3, I would be over the game by now, too.
I think Serena should be cut some slack, even if it is galling to think of that talent being wasted on someone who couldn’t give a fat rat’s bum about it.
Imagine the despair of some of the second-tier players when they heard Serena’s comments. These are the women who have given everything for tennis; who train for hours and hours a day in the hope of getting an edge; who barely make a living travelling round the satellite tournaments hoping and praying for a break.
The setting at Racquet Club of the South, primarily a tennis training facility, bore scant resemblance to Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows. The unseeded Min, 17, left there in September with the girls title at the United States Open, and coach boots the heightened expectations that accompany it.
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