Sisterly Love: Venus Williams writes beautiful tribute to Serena
Venus Williams wrote an essay for The Players' Tribune that is basically the best sister tribute ever.
Venus Williams wrote an essay for The Players’ Tribune that is basically the best sister tribute ever.
In the essay, Venus talked about the role of the “big sister;” she had to experience everything first, like driving or staying home alone or becoming a pro tennis player.
“Being the big sister meant that, when my little sister made her professional debut, I became a lot of new things to her — her colleague, her competitor, her business partner, her doubles partner,” she wrote.
“But I was still, first and foremost, the one thing I had always been: her family. I was her protector — her first line of defense against outside forces. And I cherished that.”
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She also talked about how that bond of sisterhood pushed her to return to Indian Wells after a 15-year boycott when her sister made her return last year.
“It was in that moment, seeing Serena welcomed with open arms last year at Indian Wells, that I think I fully and truly realized what being the big sister means,” she wrote. “It means that, for all of the things I did first, and all of the times when I paved the way for Serena, the thing I can be most proud of is this time. When Serena paved the way for me.”
