And so: Imagine Serena not as an aggressive, aggrieved participant in a sport that struggled to make room for her, but as one who forced her way in and made space for all who followed. Imagine her as she will be remembered: a woman in a catsuit, a woman in beaded braids, a woman yelling and cursing and grinning and laughing and twirling and dominating, in a way that may never be replicated, in a sport that recoiled from her at every serve.

