Williams could have walked away easily, at zero risk to herself or her legacy. But she would never do that.
When the entry list for Wimbledon came out in early June, Williams’ name was not on it. She hadn’t played in nearly a full season, since Wimbledon the year before, and her name was set to fall off the WTA rankings completely. Williams hadn’t been a full-time presence on the tour in years, and it felt like it was time to start saying goodbye.But then, with little warning, Williams was back. She dusted off her racquet and played a couple grass court tournaments.
In a first-person essay—that was, in typical recent Serena fashion, a cover story for Vogue—Williams announced and outlined her inevitable retirement, effective after this year’s U.S. Open, which begins Monday. Williams, authoring the story, made clear that she wanted the world to know why she was going to be hanging up her racquet: She wants to be able to have a second child.
In her two matches since her announcement in Vogue, Williams suffered lopsided defeats, going down 6–2, 6–4 to Belinda Bencic in Toronto and then 6–4, 6–0 to Emma Raducanu in Cincinnati, only the 11AdvertisementThe loss to Raducanu was rough enough that I began to wonder in the hours that followed if Williams might decide against playing the U.S. Open at all. But even with nothing left to prove, and even with all odds stacked against her, Williams has never been one to quit.
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