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Serena Williams Does Tennis a Favor
Serena returns to the tournament where she took fan abuse 14 years ago. What has changed?
She's matured. Has the game?
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Let's hope things go better for Serena Williams, and women's tennis, than last time she played in Indian Wells, California.
On Friday, she will return to the tournament she won in 2001 but where she felt she was the target of racial abuse. Williams announced her return to what is now known as the BNP Paribas Open in an article for Time in February, explaining that while the events of that year "haunted me for a long time ... a lifetime in tennis later, things feel different."