No one knows exactly how many more matches Serena Williams will play before she puts her rackets away for good.
Serena Williams reacts after her National Bank Open tennis tournament second-round match on Aug. 10, 2022, at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto, ON, Canada. Serena Williams wore her game face when she stepped out into the stadium for her first match since telling the worldGreeted by a standing ovation, the 23-time Grand Slam champion didn’t smile. She didn’t wave. She took a sip from a plastic bottle as she walked in. Some folks in the crowd captured the moment with the cameras on their cellphones.
"A lot of emotions, obviously," Williams told spectators who offered her encouragement throughout the clear, 75-degree evening.The second-round match at the hard-court tuneup for the U.S. Open came a day after she announced "the countdown has begun" on her playing career, saying she wants to have another child and pursue business interests.
Williams, a three-time champion in Canada, started this match, fittingly enough, with an ace. Delivered another later in that game, too, showing off the superb serve that helped her to so many match victories, so many tournament titles, so many weeks at No. 1 in the rankings.After winning her first major title in three years, the tennis star said she would donate the winnings to victims of Australian wildfires.
The breaks of her serve that were never quite so frequent when she was younger and at the height of her powers. The not-quite-on-target groundstrokes. The inability to offer up too much resistance while receiving serve; she only earned one break point in the first set, missing a return long to fritter away that chance, and none in the second.
In the late match, Bianca Andreescu — the final Canadian left in the singles draw — beat Alize Cornet 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Andreescu won the tournament in 2019 when Williams retired in the final match because of back problems.
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