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Without Venus, There Is No Serena

When Venus Williams stepped out of the tunnel at Arthur Ashe Stadium and into the sun on Tuesday afternoon, the stands were half empty.

Carlos Alcaraz, the third seed in the men’s draw, had just won his first-round match. Alcaraz, a phenom expected to win multiple majors someday, was born in 2003, six years after Williams made her first final in New York.