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Is this Venus Williams's last call?
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Venus Williams (courtesy of 'The Today Show')
From- The New York Times
There was a time when Venus Williams could practice all day, stopping only after she hit the 550 balls that her father threw her from a shopping cart. "Last one!" she would tell him, excited to have reached her goal. She was 4 years old.
It has been a while since Williams called that out to end practice -- "we just forgot, and then said it less and less, until finally not at all," she said recently. These days, she is focusing more on walking off without further injury.
"I don't think there's any limit to what I can do on the court," she said in an interview the weekend before the United States Open began. "My career's been so untraditional, from not playing as many tournaments when I was younger to starting to do what I want to do off the court."
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