A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon
Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and
sports writing to offer "a deep, satisfying meditation" (The New
York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There
has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated
women's tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played,
and-by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others-changed, too,
the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams's influence has not
been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who
struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a
cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working
mothers, and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams's return to
tennis after giving birth to her daughter-from her controversial
2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that
unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the
killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who
writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to
Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to
play. He talks with former women's tennis greats, sports and
cultural commentators-and Serena herself. He observes Williams from
courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social
media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically-reflecting on
her many, many facets. The result is an "enlightening...keen
analysis" (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that
illuminates Serena's singular status as the greatest women's tennis
player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no
other.
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