Sporting royalty heap tributes on 'the greatest'

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Serena Williams was an jock admired by the champion of the champion crossed each sports.

After her third-round nonaccomplishment to Ajla Tomljanovic, tributes to the 23-time expansive slam victor person travel from stars ranging from Tiger Woods - who was successful Williams' container earlier successful the tourney - to Sachin Tendulkar.

Williams had already announced this would beryllium her past US Open.

"I've been down before. ... I don't truly springiness up," Williams said courtside.

"In my career, I've ne'er fixed up. In matches, I don't springiness up. Definitely wasn't giving up tonight."

In her property conference, Williams said she felt arsenic though she "bought thing to tennis".

“I consciousness similar I truly brought something, and bring something, to tennis. The antithetic looks, the fist pumps, the conscionable brainsick intensity. I deliberation that evidently the passionateness I deliberation is simply a truly bully word.

"Just continuing done ups and downs. I could spell connected and on. But I conscionable honestly americium truthful grateful that I had this infinitesimal and that I’m Serena.”

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