In a Vogue magazine article posted online on Tuesday, Serena Williams, the 23-time Grand Slam champion who has represented tennis since winning her first U.S. Open in 1999, stated that she intended to give up the game after competing once more in the competition, which gets underway later this month.
The American tennis star through Vogue stated that “retirement” has never been a word that she liked. It doesn’t strike her as a contemporary word and she has been referring to this as a transition. Williams said that she wants to be careful how she use that word since it has a very specific and significant meaning to a group of people. Perhaps evolution is the greatest way, to sum up, what she doing. “I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” said the 40-year-old tennis icon, Williams in a civet story for Vogue.
Williams continued her comeback at the ongoing tournament Canadian Open 2022 also known as National Bank Open. Williams advanced to the second round of the Canadian Open on the first day, while her sister Venus Williams was eliminated early.
The 40-year-old Williams defeated Nuria Parrizas-Diaz with a score of 6-3, 6-4 to earn her first singles victory of the year. Her older sister, on the other hand, lost to Jil Teichmann.