“I feel like I’m a better tennis player now than I was before I gave birth,” Whiley told USA TODAY Sports.
NEW YORK — There are no spectators at this one-of-a-kind U.S. Open, but there are mothers all over the place. You may have heard that three of them — Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka and Tsvetana Pironkova — will be playing in a Grand Slam quarterfinal Wednesday, a first in the history of the sport.
Two of the other Open mothers, Williams and Pironkova, face off at noon Wednesday in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Williams’ daughter, Olympia, turned 3 as the tournament began and the ESPN cameras have made her a mini-celebrity. Pironkova, a 32-year-old Bulgarian, is having the Slam of her life after not playing a single tournament since Wimbledon in 2017; she gave birth to her son, Alexander, the following spring.
Whiley was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, an affliction commonly referred to as brittle bone disease. Her father, Keith, has the same condition. He became a noted wheelchair athlete, winning a bronze medal in the 100 meters in the Summer Paralympics in 1984. He had his daughter on the tennis courts when she was 3 years old.Whiley won Great Britain’s national championship at 14, but the journey to get there was full of pain and adversity.
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