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...style and her presence, of course, are not what we usually associate with the U.S. Open's green cement courts, and certainly not with Wimbledon's trimmed lawn courts, where Williams won her first major tennis title earlier this summer. There is an edge to Williams' vogue that seems to embrace her womanliness as much as it rejects its conventions and etiquette. Williams' most recognizable feature is her braided and beaded hair. And while her flashy, swinging braids rebel against the tennis decorum of ponytails or cropped hair, the style also admits to her vanity...
...loon and sly as a fox, is, in the wasteland of girls' tennis dads, an oasis of stability. Peter Graf's tax crimes and social infidelities polluted Steffi's final years as a champion; Pierce's belligerent dad was barred from the stands on the women's tour; at Wimbledon the Australian prodigy Jelena Dokic fought to a semifinal berth only after her father, having stormed the grounds ranting, got himself nabbed by police. The screwiest thing Richard Williams did at the All England Club was to not show up for his daughters' showdown. He couldn't take...
...WILLIAMS SISTERS Straight outta Compton: the tennis superstars shake Wimbledon--and the world...
Richard Williams has invited himself to a friend of a friend's funeral in order to avoid the paternal pain of watching a grinning, shrieking, fist-pumping blood match between daughters Venus and Serena on Centre Court at Wimbledon Thursday. "One of them is going to be buried," Williams said. "I might as well go to a real funeral. At least I get the music...
Blake defeated former Wimbledon finalist MaliVai Washington in a tournament in Newport, R.I., in July, and took then-No. 10 Marcelo Rios to a tiebreak in a Boston tournament last August...