DAN WOLKEN
Serena Williams
Serena Williams' case as the women's tennis GOAT isn't as airtight as you think | Opinion
Reducing the GOAT debate to the number of Grand Slams won — effectively the strongest argument for Serena — doesn’t present a full picture. What of Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf?
Dan WolkenUSA TODAY
Updated Aug. 25, 2022, 7:22 a.m. ET
Serena Williams may well be the greatest women's tennis player of all-time. But treating it as a settled matter unworthy of further debate, which will largely be the case as she says farewell at the U.S. Open beginning next week, isn’t merely disrespectful to the all-time greats that came before her. It completely disregards the history of the game.