NEW YORK — The handwriting was not only on the wall for Serena Williams in this instance. It was on the check.
“She’s the best of them all,” Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canada’s first teenage tennis prodigy, said of Andreescu’s standing in the new generation of top players. Beating Williams has an amplifying effect beyond compare in the women’s game, and though Williams is above all interested in winning more titles herself as she soldiers on at age 37, her enduring presence and relevance are also boons to her sport.
No longer as crazy as it would once have seemed. Williams won 21 of her first 25 major singles finals. But she has won just two of her last eight and has lost four straight since returning to the tour last season after giving birth to her first child. Two came at Wimbledon against established figures: Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep, who both had won major titles and reached No. 1 in the rankings.
Patrick Mouratoglou, her coach, lobbied Sunday for Williams to push on and keep chasing more success. The question is how much disappointment Williams is prepared to take at this late stage of her career.
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