Serena Williams has announced that she is ready to step away from competitive tennis.MORE: Serena Williams discusses changing routines with husband Alexis Ohanian and daughter OlympiaThe 23-grand slam champion has been the face of tennis since winning her first U.S.
Open in 1999.Now, two decades later, the star is using the very same tournament that catapulted her into stardom as her last competition.
The tournament, which takes place in New York, runs from 29 August to 11 September.WATCH: Serena shares sweet family videoMORE: Serena Williams inspires fans with filter-free vacation photoThe Olympian used none other than Vogue's epic September Issue to announce the bittersweet news, looking like Botticelli's Venus as she posed on the beach at sunset, donning a blue, form-fitting Balenciaga gown, and its lengthy train is being held at the end by her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian.In the as-told-to story, the athlete admits: "I have never liked the word retirement," explaining that: "It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me."She maintained: "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.In Vogue’s September issue, @serenawilliams prepares to say farewell to tennis on her own terms and in her own words. “It’s the hardest thing that I could ever imagine,” she says. “I don’t want it to be over, but at the same time I’m ready for what’s next” https://t.co/6Zr0UXVTH1 pic.twitter.com/YtGtcc18a9The star looks iconic"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."MORE: Serena Williams.
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