Mathieu WARNIER, Media365, published on Tuesday August 09, 2022 at 3:31 p.m.
While she returned to victory on Monday in Toronto, Serena Williams assured in an interview with the American magazine Vogue that she will end her career once the next US Open is over.
Serena Williams announces her exit from the stage. As she returned to victory this Monday in the first round of the WTA tournament in Toronto against Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 430 days after her last success on the women’s professional circuit, the American announced that her career is coming to an end. “There comes a time in life when you have to decide to take another direction,” she said in an interview with the American magazine Vogue. This moment is always difficult when you love something so much. My God, I love tennis. But now the countdown has begun. “If she concedes that she “never liked the word retirement”, Serena Williams sees the end of her long adventure in tennis as an “evolution”. “I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, towards other things that are important to me,” she added. A few years ago, I quietly started Serena Ventures, a venture capital firm. Soon after, I started a family. I want to expand this family. »
S.Williams: “I will savor these few weeks to come”
Four years after giving birth to her daughter Olympia, Serena Williams says she is ready to put aside what made her daily life to focus on her family. “I have to focus on my role as a mom, my spiritual goals and finally discover a different Serena, but just as exciting,” added the American. I will savor these next few weeks. Indeed, Serena Williams intends to launch a final challenge. While she will find Belinda Bencic or Tereza Martincova on the occasion of the second round of the WTA tournament in Toronto, the former world number 1 will definitely bow out where her story began to be written, on the courts of Flushing Meadows . It was at the 1999 edition of the US Open that the native of Saginaw went to seek her first Grand Slam title after a victory in two sets over the world number 1 at the time, Martina Hingis. A long series then unfolded until January 2017 and the Australian Open for her 23rd major title, one unit from Margaret Court’s record, against which she failed four times between 2018 and 2019.
