The Wall Street Journal top headlines are mostly about money, but “How Serena Williams Produced Her Second Act” (August 26, 2015) is worth reading if you’re interested in seeing the breadth of the paper’s capabilities. It is comprehensive look at the strategies of this 33-year-old athlete, complete with six illustrative videos (try that in the supposed glory days of print journalism!). Here’s some stuff that I didn’t know about this great achiever:
After Williams won Wimbledon in 2010, she lacerated her foot on broken glass in a restaurant in Germany and needed surgery to repair a tendon. The next year she suffered blood clots in both her lungs, which can be a life-threatening condition.
“I didn’t think I would play tennis again and I didn’t care, I just wanted to get out and live and start a life,” Williams said.
She said the blood clots left her with permanently reduced lung capacity. “When you get one, it goes into your lung and it kills it, and that’s why you die, because it just kills your lungs, it slowly starts to turn black,” she said. “It’s for life.”
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No mention of the steroids that she is probably taking. Have you seen her muscles? She is more muscular than the top men players.
So she cut her foot on the evening of July 7 in Germany, requiring 18 stitches . . . and then played an exhibition match in Belgium on July 8. What?
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/serena-williams-arrives-for-her-match-against-kim-clijsters-news-photo/102742263
There’s a lot of stuff about Williams that just doesn’t make sense.