Serena Williams (41 years old) celebrated her last official match at the US Open 2022, the American was eliminated in the third round by Aila Tomljanovic. The former WTA leader explains the choice of the moment of retirement from tennis.
Serena Williams and choosing when to retire: When she could still beat good opponents
In an interview with History Talks, Serena says that she has always carefully considered the timing of her career and that she wanted to stop when she is still playing very good tennis and when she can still beat worthy opponents.
“I just had to stop. I’ve always said that I want to stop when I’m playing really good tennis, winning and beating good players.
What is really important to me is what I want to do spiritually and spend time with my daughter and family.
As a very active mom, I can’t tell you how hard it was. I lost a lot of games after I got the Olympia because it was really hard for me to be on the court.
I feel like I’ve given so much of my life to tennis, my whole life, that now it’s time to do something else for myself and work on other aspects of my life.” – Serena Williamsfor “History Talks,” according to Vanity Fair.
Serena Williams, an incredible record
Serena leaves tennis with an impressive dowry of 23 Grand Slam titles.
In total, she spent 319 weeks in the first position in the WTA hierarchy (between 2002 and 2017), and collected 73 titles during her career.
Serena Williams finished her career with 858 wins and 156 losses. He collected more than 94 million dollars from tennis prizes alone.
Serena Williams and the Grand Slam titles
During an impressive career, Serena collected 23 major titles. One less than Margaret Court, but also one more than the legendary Steffi Graf.
The American won seven times at the Australian Open (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017), three times at Roland Garros (2002, 2013, 2015), seven times at Wimbledon (2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016) and six times at the US Open (1999, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014).
He also won Olympic gold four times: Sydney 2000 (doubles), Beijing 2008 (doubles), London 2012 (singles) and London 2012 (doubles).
Ranking of Grand Slam titles
1 24 Margaret Court
2 Serena Williams 23
3 Steffi Graf 22
4 Helen Wills Moody 19
5 Chris Evert / Martina Navratilova 18 etc
Source: Hot News RO
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