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...nervous from doing things wrong," says Serena Williams, opening her scissors in the air, sighing and then closing them. "I have no confidence. I never feel like this." Her sister Venus, who sits next to her in their Fundamentals of Pattern Making class, is able to offer no support, panicked herself about a tiny tear she has made, despite, or perhaps because of, her extreme caution in removing staples from her brown-paper skirt pattern. "I want to quit right now," Venus says, stamping her foot. Just then instructor Mariella Adrian, standing at the front of the small class, yells...
...second year, Venus and Serena Williams are spending the fall lugging their toolboxes, with their names carefully written in black marker on their rulers, to the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale--a mall-front junior college that overlooks Time Warped: A '70s and '80s Nightclub. Their insistence on expanding their interests beyond tennis has annoyed the likes of Martina Navratilova, who says this endeavor shows the sisters' arrogance and lack of commitment to tennis...
Getting the Williams sisters more committed, though, might result in everyone else's playing for third place. Last month Venus, 20, skipped a week of classes to play the Generali Ladies Open in Austria, where her 35-match winning streak--including Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Olympics--was snapped in the finals by Lindsay Davenport. Serena, 19, who won the Princess Cup in Japan in early October, has jumped to No. 7 in the WTA rankings. Venus is ranked third, only because she missed the first five months of the year because of an injury. Since June...
...Sydney was so good, though, that even some of the marginal sports had glorious moments. No one cares about Olympic tennis, but Wednesday's finals in the women's singles and men's doubles looked to be compelling and I went out to watch. Venus Williams won again, so this year she won Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Olympics. That's a pretty good trifecta. In the men's doubles it was the Woodies' swan song. Aussies Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge were dissolving their partnership after a decade in which they won everything - all four Slams, Wimbledon...
...long ago that JOHN MCENROE was dubbed "Superbrat" for throwing tantrums and insults on the tennis court, but last week the senior player, coach and commentator slammed the Williams sisters for not properly respecting their peers. A London newspaper published McEnroe's diatribe, sans irony, which accused Venus and Serena of being too "cocky" and aloof. McEnroe, still flabbergasted by Serena's comment last year that she would like to play in a men's tournament, restated his belief that many male college players and members of the seniors' tour could defeat the sisters. "Do women golfers say they could...