{"id":3912,"date":"2022-08-09T09:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2022-08-10T08:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:51:40","slug":"serena-williams-reveals-shes-retiring-after-upcoming-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/serena-williams-reveals-shes-retiring-after-upcoming-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Reveals She&#8217;s Retiring After Upcoming U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning we all learned that Serena Williams has decided to retire after the U.S. Open, which begins later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serena, the 23-time Grand Slam champion, won her first U.S. Open in 1999 and has dominated the sport ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/serena-williams-retirement-in-her-own-words?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_brand=vogue&amp;mbid=social_twitter&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_medium=social\">in a story written for Williams in Vogue Magazine<\/a>, Williams revealed it&#8217;s time to step away from the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,\u201d which includes both growing her business portfolio and her family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She chose not to use the term &#8220;retirement&#8221; but rather &#8220;evolving&#8221;, which is what she has done as an individual and for the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Vogue\u2019s September issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/serenawilliams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@serenawilliams<\/a> prepares to say farewell to tennis on her own terms and in her own words. \u201cIt\u2019s the hardest thing that I could ever imagine,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t want it to be over, but at the same time I\u2019m ready for what\u2019s next\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Zr0UXVTH1\">https:\/\/t.co\/6Zr0UXVTH1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YtGtcc18a9\">pic.twitter.com\/YtGtcc18a9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/voguemagazine\/status\/1556984065319903232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, want to have another child so her daughter, five-year-old Olympia, will have a sibling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the last year, Alexis and I have been trying to have another child, and we recently got some information from my doctor that put my mind at ease and made me feel that whenever we\u2019re ready, we can add to our family. I definitely don\u2019t want to be pregnant again as an athlete. 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I don\u2019t know how I\u2019m going to be able to look at this magazine when it comes out, knowing that this is it, the end of a story that started in Compton, California, with a little Black girl who just wanted to play tennis,&#8221; wrote Serena. &#8220;This sport has given me so much. I love to win. I love the battle. I love to entertain.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And for decades, she&#8217;s done just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s all hope Serena can win that last Open and go out on top.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we all learned that Serena Williams has decided to retire after the U.S. Open, which begins later this month. Serena, the 23-time Grand Slam champion, won her first U.S. Open in 1999 and has dominated the sport ever since. 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