For now, Serena Williams remains an exception among women
Serena Williams set a standard of excellence few athletes could match, and earned a respect few women in sports are afforded.Devereaux Peters was fed up. She knew plenty of her peers were, too.
This isn’t to say Williams always got her due. The truth is she rarely did, despite winning 23 Grand Slam singles titles and sustaining dominance in her sport even better than Tiger Woods sustained it in his. Somehow, Williams still was underrated. It's impossible to imagine a world in which Woods or Tom Brady or LeBron James was held by Russian authorities this long, at least not without it dominating newscasts and front pages every day. But Griner — a Houston native, NCAA champion at Baylor, eight-time All-Star and two-time Team USA Olympic gold medalist — just doesn’t generate that kind of attention.
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