Tennis icon, entrepreneur and activist Venus Williams talks to Abigail Blackburn about sisterhood, securing equal pay for women and embracing single life.

With just a hint of a smile on her lips and the obvious emotion in her eyes shadowed by a bright white baseball cap, by now we’ve probably all seen the viral clip of Venus Williams’s composed reaction to her sister Serena’s tearful tribute to her trailblazing elder sister, just days after she announced her retirement from the international tennis circuit in September.

“I wouldn’t be Serena if there wasn’t Venus, so thank you, Venus. She’s the only reason Serena Williams ever existed,” Serena declared in her final US Open interview on 2 September, her voice breaking as she wiped away self-described ‘happy tears’. In a moment when Serena could have focused purely on her own record-smashing achievements, instead she turned the spotlight on her older sister. There are plenty of reasons to follow her lead.

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