“Summoning Another Storm” was The New York Times’s take yesterday on the latest episode involving Serena Williams, the diva extraordinaire of women’s tennis.
It is not as if the city has not had enough real storms to deal with in the past few days without having to sort out another wholly manufactured one.
What does Williams, who will be 30 this month, want to be remembered for? That she has taken the women’s game to improbable physical extremes is unarguable — you had only to look at the biceps of Samantha Stosur, the new US Open champion, as she paraded the trophy through the local television stations yesterday to realise that to beat Williams it pays to be every bit as strong as her, in