LINCICOME: Little incentive to care about Slams

Tennis is not much on the minds of Americans these days, and to have another Williams-Williams final at Wimbledon will not change that. It is not that the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, should not demand attention nor deserve it, but they have been around for quite a while now, and the novelty of the two of them playing for a big prize is not what it was. Nor have they been the kind of fierce rivals that create concern, no real choosing up sides here, more a pained acceptance of duty, their enjoyment in playing each other no greater than ours. They have always insisted there is no sibling rivalry, and it is easy to believe. It would be much more stirring if there were. This has not been Pete Sampras vs. Andre Agassi or Martina Navratilova vs. Chris Evert or John McEnroe against the world, the kind of challenges that kept... [read full story]