Serena Williams on why she’s retiring now: ‘I definitely don’t want to be pregnant again as an athlete’
nypost.comsaying ta-ta to tennis. After seven Wimbledon and seven Australian Open titles, six US Open trophies and three French Open crowns, Williams, 40, is officially retiring from the sport, she announced Tuesday.
However, she was reluctant to use the word “retirement,” a term she finds outdated. Rather, the hard-hitting heroine said she will be “evolving” into a new, more personally enriched version of herself after playing in what will be her final US Open at Flushing Meadows in Queens later this month.“I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” said Williams in the September issue of Vogue, which made its digital debut this week.
In place of the game, Williams — who lost to 24-year-old Harmony Tan at Wimbledon in June, but won a match in Toronto on Monday at the pre-US Open tournament — plans to grow her family with husband and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, 39.
The couple, who tied the knot in November 2017, already shares 4-year-old daughter Alexis Ohanian Jr., whom Williams often refers to by her middle name, Olympia.
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