Tennis player Serena Williams announced her retirement in a vogue article on Tuesday. “I have never liked the word retirement”, she wrote.
23-time Grand slam champion and one of the most celebrated athletes of the decade Serena Williams is planning to retire soon.
“I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” she wrote in a Vogue article, published on Tuesday.
Serena writes, “I don’t think it’s fair, If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family. Maybe I’d be more of a Tom Brady if I had that opportunity.”
William gave no hint about her last match but said that she will give her best at the US Open. “Unfortunately I wasn’t ready to win Wimbledon this year and I don’t know if I will be ready to win New York. But I’m going to try”, she said.
The 40-year-old athlete is currently playing the Canadian Open and has reached the second round. Serena played her second singles match this year since returning to action at Wimbledon in June.
Serena beats Spain’s Nuria Parrizas Diaz in her Toronto event opener after an exact 1 year, 430 days of absence from the sport. She had earlier lost to France’s Harmony Tan in her opening match at Wimbledon this summer.
Serena Emerged in tennis at a small age of 17, when she won her first Grand Slam in 1999 at US Open. With her ferocious power and gifted intelligence, she won a total of 23 singles Grand Slam trophies in her career. Former World no. 1 is just one Grand slam away from breaking Australia’s Margaret Court’s record.
In her astounding career, Williams won 73 singles titles, 23 doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles. In her 39 Grand Slams trophies, She won 23 singles titles, 14 doubles and two mixed doubles.
Her last was in 2017 at the Australian Open after which she had maternity leave. Serena came back in 2018 after which she reached 4 Grand Slams finals but couldn’t manage to win one.
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