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In a shocker of a news, the legendary Tennis player and 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams dropped the biggest hint to bid farewell to the game on Tuesday. The tennis great has decided to call it quits to the sport after US Open.
Tennis legend Serena announced her retirement in a Vogue article published on Tuesday (August 9).
“I have never liked the word retirement,” Williams wrote. “Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.”
Williams, who turns 41 next month, has 73 career singles titles, 23 career doubles titles and over $94 million in career winnings.
Serena is the most decorated player of the Open Era, but her most recent major success came at the 2017 Australian Open.
The 40-year-old is one title shy of Margaret Court's all-time record and appears set for one last shot at matching the Australian.
Williams has already been named on the entry list for the US Open, which starts at Flushing Meadows at the end of August.
Williams is widely hailed as one of the greatest athletes of all time. In her Vogue piece, she noted that some of her detractors point out that she hasn’t won the most Grand Slam titles in women’s tennis history, however.
“There are people who say I’m not the GOAT because I didn’t pass Margaret Court’s record of 24 grand slam titles, which she achieved before the ‘open era’ that began in 1968,” Williams wrote. “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want that record.”
She said she will retire after the U.S. Open, which will run from late August into September. A victory there would tie her with Court’s Grand Slam record.
“I don’t know if I will be ready to win New York. But I’m going to try,” Williams wrote about the tournament, which is played in Queens.
