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Venus Williams whitethorn not beryllium putting her racket down conscionable yet.
Though the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion simply attended the Miami Open tourney past period arsenic a spectator, she hasn’t ruled retired returning to the athletics arsenic a rival successful the future.
“It's really beauteous motivating to travel backmost and spot the competition,” Venus said successful an April 1 recap video of her clip astatine the WTA tournament. “I loved this portion of my life. People look astatine maine like, ‘Are you playing? I’m like, ‘No, I’m not.’ And they're like, ‘When are you playing?’”
And successful effect to that question of nonrecreational tennis being portion of her future, she added, “I truly don't person a program for the archetypal clip successful my life. As an jock and a player, there's a full program [like], ‘I'm gonna play this tourney and play these tournaments truthful I'd beryllium acceptable for that tournament.’”
The 44-year-old continued, “Now it's like, ‘Oh, I emotion playing. I'm gonna play each day.’ And if I consciousness acceptable to play, past I'll play.”
Later successful the video recap, Venus—who helped retired chap tennis prima Ons Jabeur get acceptable for the WTA tourney by being her hitting partner—teased her instrumentality adjacent further.
“I whitethorn not beryllium successful the draw, but that doesn’t mean I can’t assistance sharpen idiosyncratic else’s game,” she shared. “Let’s beryllium honest, I’m inactive keeping my ain crippled ready, conscionable successful case.”
However, a “return” from Venus, who astir precocious played professionally astatine past year’s Miami Open, wouldn’t technically beryllium her coming back. In fact, the Olympic golden medalist has ne'er officially retired—a constituent she had to clarify pursuing her sister Serena Williams’ ain status from the athletics successful 2022.
“As that infinitesimal gets closer, Serena ruined it for me,” Venus said successful an interview shared to X (formerly Twitter) successful October 2024. “Because arsenic soon arsenic she retired, everybody thought I retired.”
But erstwhile that fateful time arrives, she knows precisely however she’ll feel.
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“I ever thought that I would beryllium conscionable crying erstwhile I had to retire, due to the fact that it’s each you cognize and you walk your full beingness programming your caput to bash that each azygous day,” she explained. “It’s the archetypal happening you deliberation astir erstwhile you aftermath up, the archetypal happening erstwhile you spell to bed. You imagination astir it.”
Venus added, “Now I recognize that I won’t outcry due to the fact that I’ve decidedly fixed everything to this sport. I deliberation much than anything, I’ll beryllium grateful. I deliberation that volition beryllium the feeling.”
While Venus has fixed her beingness to the athletics of tennis, galore person soaked up her endowment arsenic fans. Read connected to spot each the stars that are tennis fans and attended the 2024 U.S. Open tournament.
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Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce
The 2 shared a saccharine infinitesimal connected time 14 of the tournament.
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Simone Biles
The Olympic gymnast's attendance astatine the women's singles quarterfinal lucifer was a cleanable 10.
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Bad Bunny
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Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves McConaughey
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Laverne Cox
The communicative the Live From E! host was telling with this outfit? That she was acceptable to ticker immoderate tennis astatine the U.S. Open.
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Penn Badgley
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Jason Bateman
The Arrested Development actor was captivated by the crippled connected Sept. 4.
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Chord Overstreet
The histrion made a gleeful quality astatine the Cadillac Suite connected Zero Bond Night during the U.S. Open.
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Justin Theroux & Nicole Brydon Bloom
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Dwyane Wade
The erstwhile NBA subordinate had a slam dunk of a night.
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Orlando Bloom
Yo ho, yo ho—it's the tennis beingness for the Pirates of the Caribbean star.
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Stephen Curry & Ayesha Curry
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Busy Philipps
The Girls5eva star was beauteous engaged connected Sept. 3, catching a lucifer from the Maestro Dobel Tequila suite wrong the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
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Jason Sudeikis
The Ted Lasso star was thing but a goldfish arsenic helium was interviewed successful the stands connected Sept. 2.
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Shonda Rhimes, Tony Goldwyn & Scott Foley
A Scandal reunion astatine the U.S. Open? It's handled.
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Cynthia Erivo & Lena Waithe
The Wicked prima and the Master of None actress were rather pop-u-lar connected Sept. 2.
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Tommy Dorfman
You don't request 13 reasons to deed up the Maestro Dobel Tequila suite wrong the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Just inquire the actress.
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Ellen Pompeo & Chris Ivery
The Grey's Anatomy prima and her hubby aced their U.S. Open day connected Sept. 1.
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Hugh Jackman
The Greatest Showman star enjoyed a large showing of tennis connected Aug. 31.
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Grace Van Patten & Jackson White
The Tell Me Lies couple stepped retired for a day nighttime connected Aug. 31.
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Questlove
It was love-all with the Roots instrumentalist wrong the Moët & Chandon suite astatine the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
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Yvonne Orji & Carmelo Anthony
The Insecure star was thing but self-conscious erstwhile she snapped a selfie with the retired NBA subordinate Aug. 29.
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Anna Chlumsky
The Veep alum elected for a greenish plaid formal for her U.S. Open outing.
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Arielle Kebbel
The Vampire Diaries alum had a fang-tastic clip wrong the Heineken suite astatine the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
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Taye Diggs
The Private Practice actor was digging his Maestro Dobel Tequila cocktail earlier the commencement of a match.
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Jessica Biel
The histrion was successful seventh eden during a lucifer connected Aug. 28.
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Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor
The mates had a day nighttime astatine the m̶u̶s̶e̶u̶m̶ court.
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Liz Gillies
It was a victorious outing for the Nickeloeon alum connected Aug. 28.
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Thomas Doherty
From the Upper East Side to the U.S. Open, the Gossip Girl actor deed the bluish carpet.
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Kerry Washington
The Scandal star handled this household outing similar a pro, bringing her ma Valerie Washington to the tennis tourney connected Aug. 26.
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