Evergreen Venus returns to grace grass of Wimbledon
China Daily |
Updated: 2023-06-29 00:00
LONDON — The summer of 1997 saw Men in Black top the movie charts and Harry Potter take his first, faltering steps at Hogwarts.
It was also the year that Venus Williams, just 17 and with white beads in her hair, made her debut at Wimbledon.
Her maiden experience of the tournament was over pretty quickly, a first-round loss at the hands of Poland's Magdalena Grzybowska.
