Back in 2004, when a 17-year-old Maria Sharapova beat the two-time defending champion at Wimbledon , the tennis world, always on the hunt for the next big thing, really went above and beyond to position them as rivals. Of course, rivals they were, despite the lopsided 20-2 record that Serena Williams had in her favor. And even though fans and the media had a gala time feasting over their apparent personal feud (remember the infamous Rolling Stone interview ?), Williams maintained there wasn’t any. “I mean, was there ever beef? I guess. It was just competitive, though,” she told Chris Jackson from ALT last year. And just in case, there were still any doubts about the same, the speech that the 23-time Grand Slam champion gave to induct Maria Sharapova into the International Tennis

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