Hard Work Paid Off for the Williams Girls

For everyone who drove by that rundown and sometimes dangerous park on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Compton Boulevard in the early ‘90s and wondered what happened to those two little girls who practiced tennis with their father, last week at the U.S. Open, we all found out.

Congratulations and thank you, Serena and Venus Williams, for reminding your hometown of Compton that with hard and diligent work, it’s still OK to embrace hope and strive for a better day.

MARK LOPEZ

Lynwood

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Although I was rooting for Venus Williams to defeat Martina Hingis in the U.S. Open women’s semifinal, I thought Hingis showed a new level of maturity as she hung in the third set and finally prevailed.

I was disgusted by Bill Dwyre’s mean-spirited description of her actions as: “the smiling arrogance of an accomplished assassin.”

Hingis says dumb things because she’s still a teenager. What’s Dwyre’s excuse?

JOAN MIHAY

Morro Bay