With two weeks to go between announcements, tennis legends, Serena Williams y Roger FedererThey made their decision to retire public. The queen, 40, and the king, 41, stepped aside in this story that will remember them as the great references of white sport who finished their careers in September 2022.
Both trajectories developed in parallel. And it is that the tennis players are only 49 days old and they started in the sport practically at the same time. In fact, four times they won the same Grand Slam: Wimbledon in 2003, Australian Open in 2007, US Open in 2008 and the Australian Open in 2010.
Serena had already advanced the news of her retirement when he announced that this year’s US Open would be his last tournament. The most dominant tennis player of the last 20 years left white sport with 73 titles –a record of 22 Grand Slams in the Open Era–, a fortune valued by Forbes at 260 million dollars and being one of the 100 richest women in the world.
In addition, the American tennis player has a company, “Serena Ventures”, which has a portfolio of 60 companies to which Williams attributes much of his success in his personal life. “It was a historic race, It has been the most wonderful trip of my life. Thanks to the public, you also kept me here, ”said the player when she played her last match at the American Grand Slam.
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For his part, and despite multiple injuries, Federer’s goodbye caused more surprise. The tennis player had given no indication of his dismissal despite the fact that he had not played since Wimbledon 2021, when he fell in the quarterfinals against Hubert Hurkacz. That year he only played thirteen games and in 2020 he played six, which did begin to trigger some doubts about his chances of returning to the courts.
Federer was the winner of 103 tournaments in his career and managed to hold the record for Grand Slam titles, with 20 crowns, before being surpassed by Rafael Nadal (22) and Novak Djokovic (21). His official retirement will take place after competing in the Make Cup, which will take place in London from September 23 to 25.
“I will continue playing tennis in the future, for sure, but it will no longer be in Grand Slam tournaments or on the circuit”, said the Swiss in the announcement of his retirement, published on social networks.
