By Tom Perrotta

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Shortly after Venus Williams won Wimbledon in 2005, a victory that ended a three-plus-year stretch without a major title, Richard Williams proudly told reporters that his daughter had a lot of good years left in her, probably more than her sister Serena. Though Venus was the older sister, Mr. Williams thought she would age well, largely because she was a superior athlete to the rest of the women on the tour. By 2008, when Venus won her third Wimbledon title in four years, her father's predictio ...

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