Serena Williams Announces Tennis Retirement Plans: ‘It’s the Hardest Thing That I Could Ever Imagine’
thewrap.comVogue, published Tuesday morning. “I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people.
Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is ‘evolution.’ I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.”Among those other things is her family – which is something Williams is pretty sure no male athlete would have to consider when it comes to his career.“Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family.
I don’t think it’s fair,” she said. “If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.
Maybe I’d be more of a Tom Brady if I had that opportunity.”Williams got real about her feelings on retirement, admitting that there’s really “no happiness in this topic” for her, and that she feels “a great deal of pain” on the decision.
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