Seeing Serena
English
By (author): Gerald Marzorati
A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer a deep, satisfying meditation (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time.
There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated womens tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, andby inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and otherschanged, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williamss influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more.
Seeing Serena chronicles Williamss return to tennis after giving birth to her daughterfrom her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former womens tennis greats, sports and cultural commentatorsand Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismaticallyreflecting on her many, many facets.
The result is an enlighteningkeen analysis (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serenas singular status as the greatest womens tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other. See more
There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated womens tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, andby inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and otherschanged, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williamss influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more.
Seeing Serena chronicles Williamss return to tennis after giving birth to her daughterfrom her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former womens tennis greats, sports and cultural commentatorsand Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismaticallyreflecting on her many, many facets.
The result is an enlighteningkeen analysis (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serenas singular status as the greatest womens tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other. See more
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