WIMBLEDON, England — Ladies Day at Wimbledon. Here are five thoughts…
• We’ve seen this Serena Williams movie before. But that doesn’t make it any less entertaining. In her first two Wimbledon matches, Serena looked her age, struggling to move around the court and struggling against two players ranked outside the top 100. Serena was seeded No. 11,,and between the Coco Gauff emergence and the salon’s fondness for new No. 1, Ash Barty, Serena was almost a forgotten woman during Week One.
• Then, as if she stepped into a phone booth—the red British kind, that still exist—she emerged and did a convincing impersonation of, well, Serena Williams.