Serena Williams ‘paved the way’ for mothers to keep playing tennis, says Martina Navratilova
Serena Williams has made it clear that she has the power to change the rules.
The American has become a major player in the women’s game by making the game a lifestyle and a sport. She now holds the record of most Grand Slam titles, a record that will probably keep on beating itself in the future.
And according to Martina Navratilova, the tennis star paved the way for the “new mother” to keep playing tennis by making the game a “sport at all costs”.
Serena Williams is the biggest star in the women’s game and is now the only player with the right to call a player to go and “practice”.
The 20-time Grand Slam winner made it extremely clear that she has the power to change the rules and she could even call a player to go out and “practice”.
Martina Navratilova was a longtime world star but she was never able to “practice”, as Serena is now able to, according to the tennis great.
The 42-year-old Navratilova thinks that Serena has the power to change the rules because of what she has done. She is the biggest star in the women’s game, but she didn’t have the right to call a player out to go and “practice”.
According to Martina Navratilova, Serena went and “practiced” with women who were ranked number one in the world in 2013. She went out and practiced with players such as Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka.
Martina Navratilova has been a lifelong rival of Serena. Their last match was in July 2013 in Paris, when the pair of the two most famous tennis players in the world went and played a match with each other in the French