Serena Williams asked Tiger Woods for advice when she decided to retire. Still, the athlete might have found inspiration in Tom Brady and unretired after surprising the world with the news that she would be saying goodbye to the sport that made her an icon.During an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the 23-time Grand Slam champion and former number one tennis player in the world discussed her decision to leave tennis but also said she might change her mind.“There’s no chance of you pulling a Tom Brady and saying, ‘Maybe I’m evolving to coming back,’” Fallon asked Williams, to which she replied, “You know what?
Tom Brady started an amazing trend.”“That’s what I want to say,” she laughed.William also said that before announcing her plans in an essay in Vogue, the only person who knew was her therapist. “The only person that knew at one point about it was my therapist,” she said to Fallon. “Because verbalizing meant that it was real, and I don’t want it to be real, so I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do, and I don’t think you really know until I don’t know until you say it or it’s actually real.” Williams said she was overwhelmed by announcing the news because it “was a lot.”“I always thought at the end of it I would just leave quietly and not saying anything and make an announcement on social media,” she said. “That’s how I always thought I would do it.”“I’ve been playing tennis since I was little in a stroller...
that’s how long I’ve been around tennis,” Williams added. “But when it came out, I was actually relieved, and I didn’t expect to feel that way.
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