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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jones. Well, we said, how

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Speaker 1: would you feel if it was you that knocked Serena

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Speaker 1: Williams out of the US Open and therefore pretty much

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Speaker 1: being the last match she would ever play, because she's

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Speaker 1: mooted that she was going to be retiring after this tournament.

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Speaker 1: Well it's happened, and it happened to an Australian and

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Speaker 1: congratulations to her, Isla tom Lanovich. She beat Serena Williams

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Speaker 1: and it was a hugely emotional moment. And here's Serena's

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Speaker 1: gracious words.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, thank you so much. You guys were

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Speaker 2: amazing today. I tried alla just played a little bit better.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Daddy.

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Speaker 2: I know you're watching.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Mom.

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Speaker 2: And I started with.

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Speaker 3: My parents and they deserve everything, so I'm really grateful

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Speaker 3: for them. And I wouldn't be Serena if there wasn't Venus,

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Speaker 3: So thank you Venus.

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Speaker 2: She's the only reason that Serena William's ever existed. So

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Speaker 2: it's been the most incredible ride and journey I've ever

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Speaker 2: been on, I mean, in my life, and I'm just

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Speaker 2: so grateful to every single person that's ever said go

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Speaker 2: Serena in life. I'm just so grateful because, yeah, you

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Speaker 2: got me here.

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Speaker 1: I got goosebumps hearing that to every person that said

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Speaker 1: go Serena, and so Ela who beat her also was

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Speaker 1: aware of the momentous nature of the moment.

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Speaker 4: I'm feeling really sorry just because I love Serena just

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Speaker 4: as much as you guys do, and what she's done

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Speaker 4: for me for the sport of tennis is incredible. And

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Speaker 4: I never thought that I'd have a chance to play

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Speaker 4: her in her last match when I remember watching her

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Speaker 4: as a kid in all those finals. So this is

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Speaker 4: a surreal moment for me. She's the greatest of all time.

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Speaker 1: Everyone seems pretty happy she beat up. Well, it had

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Speaker 1: to happen, and both very gracious players there. And it's

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Speaker 1: easy to forget how she changed the face of tennis.

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Speaker 1: Until she and her sister came along, it was really

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Speaker 1: seen as an Elita's sport. It was blonde ponytails. There

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Speaker 1: was an equal pay. Billy Jean fought hard, but the

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Speaker 1: four Grand Slams did not have equal pay. But everyone

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Speaker 1: started to watch the tennis when these two interesting sisters

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Speaker 1: started to play. They had different bodies to the other players.

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Speaker 1: They were solid, they were athletic, they grunted when they

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Speaker 1: hit the ball. They had beads in their hair. They

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Speaker 1: were black. Tennis had never seen that. Women's tennis had

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Speaker 1: never seen or celebrated that before. It was a huge thing.

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Speaker 1: And I didn't realize this because I haven't I haven't

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Speaker 1: read the story, and I haven't seen the film about

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Speaker 1: their father. That's the film that will Smith won. Remember

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Speaker 1: that insta well that he actually went on Offris Rock. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you forget that there was a film involved, but.

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Speaker 4: He played King Richard.

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Speaker 1: He played Richard Williams, who their father was. So there

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Speaker 1: were three older sisters and his dad decided, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to make a tennis player, and he made two. He

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Speaker 1: really one drop of suits monster well in a way

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Speaker 1: because he developed a business plan for the Richard Williams

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Speaker 1: Tennis Association, a seventy five page business plan, a blue

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Speaker 1: pint print for raising champions. He said. He acted as

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Speaker 1: architect and promoter of the girls. So he really had

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Speaker 1: these daughters to be tennis players, and he skilled them

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Speaker 1: and schooled them in not just how to play tennis,

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Speaker 1: but he was the king of marketing. And he had

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Speaker 1: the trope or the narrative that they were these poor

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Speaker 1: little girls from a poor suburb, from the ghetto, and

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Speaker 1: look what's happened. The truth is they weren't particularly a

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Speaker 1: poor family, but he thought that was a better narrative

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Speaker 1: for these girls and he created these champions. Extraordinary, that amazing,

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Speaker 1: you can actually do that. I wonder when you look

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Speaker 1: at sporting people.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't from a.

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Speaker 1: My dad was a great sportsman. He was really good

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Speaker 1: at football, but I wasn't.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to be good at football, but I wasn't.

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Speaker 4: And then I look at my kids.

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Speaker 3: They weren't overly great at sport.

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Speaker 1: But if you're a different kind of family, you would

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Speaker 1: have had them playing sport from when they're a very

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Speaker 1: young age. Harley's a Kiwi, so he pushed rugby union

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Speaker 1: hard with our kids.

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Speaker 3: Your boys are real sports.

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Speaker 1: From the time they were five, they were playing rugby union.

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Speaker 1: That was what he wanted for them, and they wanted

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Speaker 1: for themselves. That was part of our family and our

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Speaker 1: weekends and all of that. But if you don't come

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Speaker 1: from that family, then you don't have that. And that's

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Speaker 1: absolutely how it goes. Some families pursue art, some families

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Speaker 1: pursue other things. Sometimes I've got a friend whose daughter

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Speaker 1: was selected for the Institute of Sport in New Zealand

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Speaker 1: because they came around and measured her arms and her

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Speaker 1: legs and so she'd be a roller. Really yeah, So

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Speaker 1: sometimes you're peaked because your body fits a certain and type,

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Speaker 1: and then you have others who like this grow up

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Speaker 1: in a family where it's hugely encouraged. Maybe I'm meant

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Speaker 1: to be doing something else. Let's try and find what

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Speaker 1: that is. What let's find what it is, Brenda, there's

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Speaker 1: going to be something. Find your mojo. Maybe I was

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Speaker 1: meant for the theater.

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Speaker 4: Maybe that's what it was.

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Speaker 1: Maybe