Serena Williams is not ready to say goodbye just yet. Williams won her match in the first round of the U.S. Open. She will continue to play, facing No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia on Wednesday. USOpen
NEW YORK — Serena Williams is not ready to say goodbye just yet. Nor, clearly, are her fans.
She rolled through the end of that opening set, capping it with a service winner she reacted to with clenched fists and her trademark cry of “Come on!” The more than 23,000 in the stands rose for a raucous standing ovation — and did so again when the 1-hour, 40-minute contest was over, celebrating as if another trophy had been earned.
While Williams did not exactly declare that the U.S. Open definitively would be her last hurrah, she has made it sound as if it will be.Spike Lee participated in the pre-match coin toss. Former President Bill Clinton was in the stands. So were Mike Tyson and Martina Navratilova, sitting next to each other.
“Evolving,” chimed in Thorn’s friend, Cora Monroe, 72, of Shreveport, Louisiana, which she noted is where Richard Williams — the father of Serena and sister Venus, and the central figure in the Oscar-winning film “King Richard” — is from, too.
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