Serena vs. Venus | Your Doubles Partner | 4

Sports Wars

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Serena’s competitive streak starts to boil over. And with a strain now between them, Venus and Serena embark on a very different path.

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0:00.0	It's Saturday, July 5, 2008, and Serena Williams is hungry as she paces up and down a tunnel
0:14.8	just outside center court.
0:17.2	More specifically, she's hungry for a Wimbledon title.
0:22.2	After winning five of six Grand Slam tournaments that span between 2002 and 2003, Serena's only
0:29.3	taken home two Grand Slam titles in the five years since.
0:34.2	For basically any player on tour, winning two slams in a career would be a triumph beyond
0:40.9	their wildest hopes and an almost guaranteed spot in the sports hall of fame.
0:47.2	But to the 26 year old Serena, who should be squarely in her prime, this current stretch
0:53.3	is nowhere near acceptable.
0:56.5	She was raised to accept nothing less than greatness for herself.
1:01.9	Serena is also no longer the spotlight personality on tour the way she once was.
1:08.6	Maria Sharapova has recently won three Grand Slam titles, leading a wave of Russians who've
1:14.7	taken the tour by storm.
1:16.7	Belgians and Serbians too have had their turns at the top.
1:21.0	Serena hasn't let up, but she's not the reliable force she once was, and it's left
1:27.3	her hungrier than ever.
1:30.0	The crowd is now getting louder and her racquet bag feels heavy as she waits to be called
1:35.2	out.
1:36.5	Just win this one and you're back.
1:38.7	Serena says to herself as she walks on to center court.
1:42.6	She can still feel the crowd nearby as she continues to tell herself, win this one,
1:48.3	start a new run right here right now.
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