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Williams’ frustration on the court, her hair styles and eye-catching outfits, her dancing and fist-pumping were all once unheard-of in tennis, Ms. Corbett said, and Williams’ decision to never turn down the volume has been widely admired.
It is in large part why Scheherazade Tillet, a photographer and co-founder of the art-focused nonprofit A Long Walk Home, became a lifelong Williams fan. “There’s this sense of identification — she’s from Compton, from a Black community, she plays the music, she dances, she brings the culture to the floor with her twirls and her Crip walks,” Tillet, 40, said. “So even if you’re not a huge tennis fan, you become one.”
In the post-match interview on Wednesday, when Williams was asked how she had pulled out another win, she said she no longer had anything to prove. That confidence struck Brandeis Marshall, 44, founder and chief executive of DataedX Group, a data analytics firm.
“Every Black woman 40 and over is NAVIGATING THEIR WORK LIFE WITH NOTHING TO PROVE,” Dr. Marshall said in a post on Twitter.
“I have a lot of affection for the fact that she’s doing it in the way that she’s doing it, unapologetically,” Dr. Marshall added in an interview with The New York Times. “There’s a certain point, at this age, when people start to discount you — and that happens no matter what industry.”
‘My Serena catsuit month’
The tennis star noted in her Vogue essay that if she were a man, she would not have to make the impossible choice between career and parenting. “Maybe I’d be more of a Tom Brady if I had the opportunity,” she said, in acknowledgment of the biological and social ceilings that American women of childbearing age often face.
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