Anna Wintour Lauds Serena Williams as “a Figure So much larger than the game she has mastered”

Last year’s Brand Visionary winner Anna Wintour presented this year’s award to Serena Williams at Wednesday night’s Brand Genius awards gala. “When I first met Serena Williams, she was a tennis champion of unbelievable perseverance,” Wintour said. “Now, at 37, she is still a tennis champion of unbelievable persistence and power—also, a wife and a mother and a role model for millions of women.” Wintour said Williams “seems all ready to come from another, better world.” She commended Williams’ activism, particularly for speaking out about “the horror of gun violence” as well as for taking action on the “menace of domestic violence.” Wintour, an avid tennis fan, noted that Williams has become “one of the sport’s greatest ambassadors” and “a figure so much larger than the game she has mastered.”

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