Serena Williams has her eyes on New York, not always the most welcoming landscape for her but now a destination where she is desperate to make history and friends.
Where once there was rancour this time there ought to be the most fulsome lavishing of celebration for the finest tennis player the women’s game has known since Steffi Graf as Williams attempts to draw alongside the German’s tally of 22 majors while completing the first calendar grand slam since Graf’s in 1988.
Williams will arrive as owner of all four championships and at the very peak of her game at 33 – fit, healthy and happy.