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It's just another challenge for Rubin.
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Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
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September 1, 2002
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2002 Chicago Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Bonnie DeSimone
NEW YORK _ Chanda Rubin first met Venus Williams at a clinic when Williams was a gangly girl of 11 or so, "all arms and legs," Rubin remembered.
Rubin, now 26, is just four years older than Williams. But she had already turned pro and, as one of few African-Americans on the women's tour, embodied the future for Venus and her younger sister, Serena.
"You could see that there was going to be some potential," Rubin said. "You also could see, in terms of Mr. Williams . . . the whole plan that he had put into place for them. At that point you couldn't really know if that was going to come true."
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