“Serena Williams: Love Her, Hate Her, She’s the Best Ever”. That’s the line that greeted us on the cover of last week’s post-Wimbledon issue of Sports Illustrated.
It was a surprise in one sense. Serena, despite her continued dominance, has yet to match the career totals — the Slam wins, the tournament titles, the weeks at No. 1 — of past greats like Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, and Chris Evert.
In another sense, though, it wasn’t all that shocking. This is a magazine cover. As anyone who has ever read a fitness magazine and tried to get a “6 pack in 6 days” knows, covers are all about exaggeration.
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