Serena introduced that she would being saying goodbye to tennis in an essay for Vogue earlier this month.

“I am right here to inform you that I am evolving away from tennis,” she wrote in a canopy story for the journal’s September 2022 difficulty, “towards different issues which might be essential to me.” 

She additionally admitted that whereas some are excited to retire, she discovered it to be extraordinarily tough. 

“Reward to those individuals, however I’ll be sincere. There is no such thing as a happiness on this matter for me,” the four-time Olympic gold medalist continued. “I do know it is not the same old factor to say, however I really feel quite a lot of ache. It is the toughest factor that I may ever think about. I hate it. I hate that I’ve to be at this crossroads. I preserve saying to myself, I want it could possibly be straightforward for me, but it surely’s not. I am torn: I do not need it to be over, however on the similar time I am prepared for what’s subsequent.”