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Chicago Sun-Times
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Howard Fendrich | Associated Press

Serena Williams will define her own legacy

Serena Williams acknowledges the crowd after losing to Ajla Tomljanovic during the third round of the U.S. Open. (John Minchillo/AP)

NEW YORK — After all of the many tributes to Serena Williams were done, the celebratory words and the video montages, the standing ovations and the shouts of her name, it seemed appropriate that she herself would provide the defining look at her legacy.

So the last question at the news conference after her last match of the U.S. Open — and, it seems clear, of her career — offered Williams the chance to say how she’d most like to be remembered.

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