It remains both a blessing and a curse that Venus and Serena Williams grew up in the same household with the same Technicolor tennis dreams.
A blessing because they have always had each other for support and inspiration as a seemingly outlandish plan by their father, Richard, to make them the best players in the world turned into reality.
A curse because they knew, even as preteens, that they would eventually have to face each other with cameras rolling and mixed emotions surfacing.