Venus

"Her dad is a figure a bit like the father of Venus and Serena Williams," said Sporting's head of women's football.

Venus Williams had made it to the quarterfinal round of the U.S.

Tennis champion Serena Williams has dealt with sports commentators derisively calling her too masculine, while a commentator at the Australian Open compared her sister Venus to a gorilla.

Most famous was the South African woman cruelly nicknamed the "Hottentot Venus" who had once been put on display in Europe and whose body was taken home in 2012.

Only time will tell if we have witnessed the final occasion that 45-year-old Venus Williams steps out at the US Open.