Serena Williams: ‘If I were a man,’ I would have been considered the greatest a long time ago

The year will not end in the way in which Serena Williams might have hoped. She reached three Grand Slam finals, but won only one in the follow-up to a year of such dominance and grace that she was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year. Along the way, she lost her No. 1 world ranking …