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Serena Williams takes the court for the principal match of her last U.S. Open


Serena Williams practices before the start of the U.S. Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Aug. 25 in New York City.

Serena Williams takes the court Monday night for her most memorable match of what's anticipated to be her last U.S. Open.


Williams will face Danka Kovinic at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows in New York City — the site of Williams' most memorable U.S. Open win in 1999, when she was 17.


Earlier this month, Williams, presently 40, announced her plans to resign from tennis, after a decades-in length career in which she dominated and transformed the ladies' game and that incorporates 23 Grand Slam singles titles.


Serena Williams says she expects to resign from tennis after the U.S. Open

SPORTS

Serena Williams says she expects to resign from tennis after the U.S. Open

"With her strong serve and return of serve and athleticism, she really set that standard in the ladies' game," NPR's Tom Goldman told Morning Edition.


"Her account of the early years in Compton, California, with sister Venus, under the tutelage of their dad, 'Lord Richard,' presently of film fame, that all became part of her legend and paved the way for additional youngsters of variety to seek after what had traditionally been a white game," Goldman said. "And she brought more ethnic minorities into the stands to watch as well."

As she prepared to take the court Monday, Williams got recognitions from individual athletes and fans, remembering a spot for the front of Time magazine.


Williams has won six U.S. Open singles championships, the last in 2014. On paper, she is the mind-boggling favorite on Monday night, with a 20-0 record in U.S. Open first-round matches — without dropping a set beginning around 2001, according to the U.S. Open.


Be that as it may, Williams is as of now ranked 605th for singles, getting back to play as of late after battling wounds. Her adversary, 27-year-old Kovinic of Montenegro, is ranked 80th.


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Williams has just played four matches this year, and just won one, sports commentator Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media told Weekend Edition.


"She really is, probably without precedent for her life, a dark horse" to win the U.S. Open, Bryant said. "Be that as it may, kid, what a magical fairy tale story on the off chance that she can come to New York and pull off some magic."


After she resigns from tennis, Williams will proceed with her spearheading ways and spotlight on fostering an investment firm she shaped eight years ago.

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