NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION . . .
Feb 07, 2020
4 minutes
COMPILED BY JANE VORSTER
IT’S a question tennis fans have been asking for a while: when Serena Williams bows out, who’ll step up to replace her?
Of course, nobody wants to see the champ go, but at age 38 her days must be numbered, so the nagging question persists.
And in a blistering final at the Australian Open in Melbourne recently, Sofia Kenin provided a resounding answer. As she came back from one set down to defeat Spain’s Garbine Muguruza 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, the parallels with Serena’s own stellar rise to fame were uncanny.
Sofia is also American and at
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