WIMBLEDON, England — “Time!” the chair umpire kept saying as usual Monday, reminding the players it was time to resume play after a changeover.
But the word had particular resonance considering that the Williams sisters were the ones exchanging blows on Centre Court.
Serena Williams, the younger sister and eventually the 6-4, 6-3 winner in this rather anticlimactic fourth-round match, was certainly thinking plenty about it.
“It definitely doesn’t get easier,” she said of facing her sister Venus. “But today I was out there and I thought, ‘Wow. I’m 33, and she just turned 35.