“I’d never put myself in the position of worshiping them, looking up, being a fan,” Sharapova writes. “First of all, her physical presence is much stronger and bigger than you realize watching TV,” Sharapova writes. Serena Williams just has it more.”Sharapova beat Williams in that match, but believes its aftermath has cost her every match since. “Guttural sobs, the sort that make you heave for air, the sort that scares you,” Sharapova writes. In contrast to Sharapova, Williams left rivals largely undiscussed in her own midcareer memoir, “On The Line,” published in 2009.

Source: New York Times September 11, 2017 20:48 UTC