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Garber: One down, six to go for Serena Williams

1h - Tennis Serena Williams

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Athletes on Serena's greatness

Former and current athletes from different sports give their opinion on professional tennis player Serena Williams' impact to the sport.

  • Greg Garber, Writer, Reporter Close
      Greg Garber joined ESPN in 1991 and provides reports for NFL Countdown and SportsCenter. He is also a regular contributor to Outside the Lines and a senior writer for ESPN.com.

NEW YORK -- The only real questions that materialized early in Serena Williams' anxiously anticipated first match at this US Open bordered on the rhetorical: Would her opponent, Vitalia Diatchenko, manage to win a single game?