After Serena Williams, a question for women’s tennis: What’s next?
By Ava Wallace -
NEW YORK — The crowds at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center thinned only slightly in the days following what might have been Serena Williams’s final match.
After Serena Williams, a question for women’s tennis: What’s next?
It was possible to walk the site’s stone thoroughfares without circumnavigating mile-long lines at the Grey Goose and Heineken stands, but throngs still moved like molasses. Anyone interested in buying a T-shirt sized small, medium or large at the biggest gift shop on the grounds was probably out of luck.
Officially, the U.S. Open kept on trucking as it rode the contrails of a Williams-inducted ticket rush. It set a single-day attendance record Saturday with 72,065 fans pouring through the center’s turnstiles, which beat the previous day’s record-setting number by 26.
Yet the clouds that rolled in Friday and Saturday in the early afternoon contributed to a sort of hangover feeling at Flushing Meadows. The energy started to seep, and throughout Friday players were asked for their thoughts on the potential end of Williams’s career.
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