Serena Williams is blogging!

Hat tip to On The Baseline for alerting me to the existence of Serena Williams blog. She reports that she is back practicing at Nick Bolleteri's tennis academy in Florida, preparing for her play at the US Open in New York as a Wild Card entry next week. The blog's first entry is dated Monday August 14, so we will see if she keeps up the blog during the tournament.

In yesterday's entry, Serena reports on a number of "pitch meetings" that she went on while in Los Angeles to get television networks interested in a movie about the 50-year friendship between African American tennis champion Althea Gibson and a Jewish player (I had never heard of) named Angela Buxton, based on a book called The Match: A Portrait Of A Friendship. Apparently Serena's pitch went better than the pitch shown in this week's Entourage episode, because she seems excited about playing Althea and writes again that she "loves acting."