Feted sisters to meet in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows with a calendar grand slam on the line for SerenaVenus v Serena: it sounds like some intergalactic showdown to save the planet rather than a tennis match between the two members of the Williams family who over nearly two decades maintain simultaneously dominated their sport like no one else.
And yet,for all their genetic gifts, for all their titles and talent and riches, or their quarter-final in the 2015 US Open – which may even be the last of their 27 contests – has landed on schedule like some alien ship,an event no one predicted at the start of the tournament and one laden with enough sub-plots to qualify as an episode of Days Of Our Lives.
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Source: theguardian.com