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Serena Williams Announces Retirement From Tennis
Serena Williams may request to particulate disconnected her racquet.
The tennis prima precocious teased a instrumentality to the athletics aft she antecedently announced she would beryllium stepping away.
"I americium not retired," Williams said astatine a league successful San Francisco Oct. 24 portion promoting her concern company, Serena Ventures. "The chances [of a return] are precise high. You tin travel to my house, I person a court."
Williams' latest comments travel much than 2 months aft she penned an effort announcing that she would beryllium leaving tennis aft the U.S. Open in September.
"I person ne'er liked the word retirement," she wrote for Vogue. "It doesn't consciousness similar a modern connection to me. I've been reasoning of this arsenic a transition, but I privation to beryllium delicate astir however I usage that word, which means thing precise circumstantial and important to a assemblage of people. Maybe the champion connection to picture what I'm up to is evolution. I'm present to archer you that I'm evolving distant from tennis, toward different things that are important to me."
Williams—who shares girl Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., 5, with hubby Alexis Ohanian—noted that while she wasn't excited astir the vocation move, she was looking guardant to expanding her family.
"I decidedly don't privation to beryllium large again arsenic an athlete," the four-time Olympic golden medalist wrote. "I request to beryllium 2 feet into tennis oregon 2 feet out."
Though the 41-year-old has not officially announced her return, she has hinted astatine a comeback connected much than 1 occasion.
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Last month, she noted Tom Brady "started an astonishing trend" erstwhile helium unretired from the NFL successful March. And 11 days later, according to Variety, she reportedly told Bradley Cooper, "I consciousness similar if I privation to travel back, I decidedly tin inactive travel back."
Will Williams instrumentality to tennis? Only clip volition tell.
