Serena Williams Is ‘Prepared’ for Tennis Retirement: Some Days Are ‘Overwhelming’
usmagazine.comEven the GOAT needs a break. Serena Williams has thought about when she will walk away from her tennis career.“I am prepared for that day, I’ve been prepared for that day for over a decade,” the 40-year-old athlete told Entertainment Tonight of her potential retirement during an interview published on Tuesday, February.
8. “I’ve always — if you’ve seen [the biopic] King Richard — you know that my dad always said you got to prepare, so I’ve been prepared for that.
You know, at the end of the day, I think it’s really important to always have a plan and that’s kind of what I did. I always had a plan.”Williams has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, four Olympic gold medals and broken countless barriers since the beginning of her professional sports career.
Off the court, the Michigan native has founded a successful clothing line, S by Serena, and recently signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios.Between business ventures, tennis training and parenting 4-year-old daughter Olympia, Williams is still trying to master the “balancing act.”She told ET: “Some days it’s harder than the others … because I’m still a mom and I’m still a wife and I’m still, you know, I want to be able to spend time and I like to be good at things.
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