NEW YORK — It has been a dozen years since Serena and Venus Williams first arrived at the U.S. Open as teenagers.
Two young black women from Compton, Calif., their hair woven into white beads that sometimes spilled onto the court, they were unlike anything the staid tennis world had ever seen.
And it has been 10 years since Serena beat the Swiss Miss Martina Hingis to win the first of the sisters’ five titles in Flushing Meadows.
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