Serena Williams to me is the greatest America athletic that ever live male or female. She is American professional tennis player that has won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, tying Steffi Graf for the most major championships by a tennis player (male or female) in the Open era of professional tennis (Ubha 2016). marks the joint record for the most Major wins in the Open Era. She has the of 309 matches all-time record for the most singles matches won at the Grand Slams event. through 2016 US Open which still raising. Raymond E. Smith in book How Did They Get So Rich? explains that “Williams is primarily a baseline player and her game is built around taking immediate control of rallies with her powerful and consistent serve, return of serve, and forceful groundstrokes from both her forehand and backhand swings.” (Smith, pg. 1926-1927) The double-handed backhand forehand of Serena is considered the most powerful shots in the women’s game. Within the context of masculinity, the United States it important to known that black women seen as masculine. For example, the article Venus and Serena against the world by John Jeremiah Sullivan when explain about Serena Williams’s serve having the best the women’s game which is a serve speed of 128.6 mph the third fastest all-time among female players he states that her father taught her to “throw like a boy”( Sullivan, 2012). Serena “masculine” physique like other female athletes with strong and muscular bodies are seen as against norms of conventional gender representation. Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body by Laura Schulze describes that “the deliberately muscular woman disturbs dominant notions of sex, gender, and sexuality, and any discursive field that includes her risks opening up a site of contest and conflict, anxiety and ambiguity” (Hissa , pg198) This why on social media people called Serena “ape” and “gorilla” as way voice their concerns about the ambiguity. Serena Williams is being a “bad negro” by being deviance when it comes to womanhood.
Black Masculinity 