Screenwriter Serena Williams Should Tell Her Own Tale

Serena Williams toiled this summer on a screenplay, which she compares to Desperate Housewives meets Sex and the City and Family Guy. But perhaps the best subject she could take on would be her and her sister’s own lives, writes Karen Crouse in the New York Times. It would certainly get viewers: “Even now, the single highest ratings getter for us is Serena,” says commentator Mary Carillo. “More than Roger Federer, more than Andy Roddick.”

Her screenplay would tell “a jewel of a story,” from the Williams’ power style “which yanked tennis kicking and shrieking into the Big Babe era” to “their bold fashion statements.” Asks Crouse: “What could Serena’s imagination conjure that is more Roald Dahl than two African-American sisters rising from rundown courts in Compton, Calif., to the top rungs of tennis?”