WTA founder Billie Jean King says Serena Williams goes down as “the game’s biggest participant” and somebody who will ceaselessly be generally known as a champion. Williams, who turned professional in 1995, is about to retire from skilled tennis at this yr’s US Open.
Over the course of her completely beautiful profession, Williams has received a complete of 39 Grand Slams – 23 in singles, 14 in ladies’s doubles and two in blended doubles. Williams is broadly thought-about not simply as one of many biggest gamers in tennis historical past, however as one of many biggest gamers in all sports activities historical past.
“When Serena steps away from tennis, she is going to go away as the game’s biggest participant. After a profession that has impressed a brand new era of gamers and followers, she is going to ceaselessly be generally known as a champion who received on the courtroom and raised the worldwide profile of the game off of it,” King stated in a press release.
Saying goodbye wasn’t straightforward for Williams
Williams is about to show 41 subsequent month and she or he has loved a really lengthy and profitable profession. Nonetheless, it was extraordinarily onerous for Williams to say out loud that she was stepping away from skilled tennis.
“There is no such thing as a happiness on this matter for me. I do know it’s not the standard factor to say, however I really feel a substantial amount of ache. It’s the toughest factor that I may ever think about. I hate it. I hate that I’ve to be at this crossroads.
I hold saying to myself, I want it could possibly be straightforward for me, but it surely’s not. I’m torn: I don’t need it to be over, however on the identical time I’m prepared for what’s subsequent,” Williams admitted in her piece for Vogue.
Williams captured her first Grand Slam title on the US Open in 1999 and her selecting to retire at Flushing Meadows did not come as a shock in any respect.
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