LeBron James supported Serena Williams from home as she reached the third round of the US Open in a truly hilarious manner. The basketball legend watched his fellow sporting great defeat second seed Anett Kontaveit 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-2 in front of a raucous Arthur Ashe crowd.
In a clip uploaded to his Instagram story, as the match came to an end the four-time NBA champion proceeded to bleat like a goat at the TV screen, referencing Serena Williams as the GOAT, an acronym for the greatest of all time. The LA Lakers star said: “GOAT talk! GOAT talk! I see you Serena, GOAT talk!”, and captioned the clip “@serenawilliams, keep going!”
Set to retire after the ongoing US Open, Williams’ tennis career is still very much alive after registering a performance that’s easily her best of the year to defeat the Estonian. The dream ending – a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title in her final tournament – is still a long way away, but this performance showed that it might just be a possibility.
