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Serena Williams Announces Retirement From Tennis
Serena Williams is acceptable to officially accidental goodbye to tennis—or is she?
The tennis star, who precocious announced her status from the sport, implied that determination whitethorn beryllium anticipation for her instrumentality to the crippled erstwhile asked by Jimmy Fallon if she would "pull a Tom Brady" and unretire.
"You cognize what? Tom Brady started an astonishing trend," she shared connected the Tonight Show Sept. 13. "That's what I'm gonna say."
Though we whitethorn person to hold and spot if Serena, 40, volition prime up a tennis racket again, the jock announced successful August that she was retiring from the sport aft competing successful the U.S. Open.
"I person ne'er liked the word retirement," she wrote for a screen communicative for Vogue's September 2022 issue. "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."
While Serena—who shares 5-year-old girl Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. with husband Alexis Ohanian—said that she wasn't excited astir the vocation move, she wants to absorption connected different aspects of her life, including her venture superior firm Serena Ventures and expanding her family.
"In the past year, Alexis and I person been trying to have different child, and we precocious got immoderate accusation from my doc that enactment my caput astatine easiness and made maine consciousness that whenever we're ready, we tin adhd to our family," the four-time Olympic golden medalist continued. "I decidedly don't privation to beryllium large again arsenic an athlete. I request to beryllium 2 feet into tennis oregon 2 feet out."
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