Serena Williams Rises to the Occasion
Serena Williams Rises to the Occasion, Like So Many Times Before. Williams met a valedictory night at the U.S. Open with a success that was fitting, and with a second-round match on Wednesday, the goodbye party at Arthur Ashe Stadium proceeds. It was a premiere night at the U.S. Open that might have been the end evening of Serena Williams' 27-year proficient singles profession. In any case, win or lose, Williams was seeking the stately treatment in Arthur Ashe Stadium. The list of attendees and commendatory tone were set; the convention and the recordings described by Queen Latifah and Oprah Winfrey were set up. It felt more like a live performance than a first-round tennis match as Williams strolled into the sold-out arena where she has encountered win and grief in genuinely equivalent measure just to be welcomed this time by maybe the most intense expanded thunder of help she has encountered in her almost 41 years. "Truly overpowering," Williams said. "I could fee...