NEW YORK – There will never be another Serena Williams. Nor another Venus Williams, for that matter. The next generation of U.S. women’s tennis players—and feel free to pick your 10 best under 30 years old—are not combining for 30 Grand Slam singles titles, 121 WTA titles and 173 finals appearances.
(Yes, we know: This is not exactly going out on a limb.)
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But Saturday represented something significant for American tennis, the conclusion of a tournament in which the U.S. women grabbed America’s Grand Slam by the throat and owned it. Sure, the U.