Hour 2: Throwing Shade?
First Take
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4.0 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Quick take. Speaking of New York, Venus Williams suffered her most lots on U.S. |
| 0:04.0 | Open lost Williams playing her 100th career singles match. At the Grand Slam event, |
| 0:09.6 | she won twice with eliminated by a Belgian qualifier, 6161 in a first round match. |
| 0:15.1 | Stephen A. Thoughts on Venus. |
| 0:18.6 | I love Venus Williams. We all should love the Williams sisters. We |
| 0:22.1 | revered them. We appreciate their greatness over the years. We're talking about |
| 0:26.7 | somebody in Venus Williams who's won seven major championships, including five |
| 0:31.1 | in Wimbledon. It is time for her to retire. Enough's enough. She's the oldest player in the field. |
| 0:38.1 | She's 43 years of age with a bad knee, okay? After winning, going 21 and 0. |
| 0:46.7 | And her first 21 appearances in the open, she's been bounced out the first round |
| 0:50.9 | the last three times. And then I'm looking at numbers here. And it says, |
| 0:55.6 | in the first or second round in each of her last 12 slam appearances, she's been bounced out. |
| 1:02.6 | It's over. And so at some point in time, we all have to accept that far the time and |
| 1:07.7 | mother nature undefeated. It is what it is. She is phenomenal. She is great. She is a |
| 1:13.9 | all-of-famous. She is classed to signify, unassistant, all the things that they have overcome. |
| 1:18.8 | We not only honor them and respect them and love them dearly. We revered them. |
| 1:24.0 | But there comes a point in time where everybody has to know when to hang it up. |
| 1:29.5 | That time has arrived now for Venus Williams. Yeah. One thing I will just say, |
| 1:34.2 | Stephen A, she's been battling a reoccurring knee injury. That's what I said. |
| 1:38.0 | She's, yeah, seen pampered by that last night. That's what I'm saying. She's old. She's older now |
| 1:42.4 | and with the knee. It's time. Are you also open second round coverage begins today with 11 more |
| 1:47.2 | hours on ESPN starting at noon eastern. There's also four hours of coverage on ESPN 2 from 7 |
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