When Serena Williams made the first professional tennis appearance of her career in Quebec City on a chilly late-October day in 1995, at just 14 years old, there was no pomp and circumstance, no introductions and certainly no fans watching.
No one really had any idea who she was or what she was about to become.
The kid from Compton, Calif., who had travelled north to la belle province to begin her foray into the tennis world, was competing in a Tier 3 tournament qualifying match against 149th-ranked American Annie Miller.
It was unmemorable, lacklustre and the match was over in less than an
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