Why Serena Williams' French Open Semifinal Looks So Lopsided

ByJIM CAPLE
June 3, 2015, 3:50 PM

— -- PARIS -- A few years before her first appearance in a Grand Slam semifinal, Timea Bacsinszky was washing dishes in restaurants while considering a career in hotel management.

"I don't know if it really helps me for my forehand or for my backhand,'' Bacsinszky said, "but it gives you also a lot of humility because there are many people in this world who are working in restaurants, hotels, in the kitchen, who are making our beds in hotels, as well. ... It was just to be once treated as someone normal. I mean, not all the time to have those VIP passes.''