Last Updated on 08/14/2022 by てんしょく飯
Female professional tennis player Serena Williams (40) has commented on her plans to retire.
Serena Williams, who graced the cover of the September issue of Vogue magazine, contributed her own essay in lieu of an interview.
Professional female tennis player Serena Williams (40) commented on her retirement plans.
In the essay, Serena writes about tennis, when she might play her last match, and her desire to have another child. Serena also does not like the word “retirement” and instead focuses on her “evolution.
On balancing tennis and family, Serena says, “I would never want to have to choose between tennis and family. I don’t think it’s fair. If I were a man, I wouldn’t be writing this because I would be out there playing and winning while my wife is doing physical labor to expand our family. If I had that opportunity, I might have been more like (the greatest quarterback in NFL history) Tom Brady. Don’t get me wrong, I love being a woman and I loved every second of being pregnant with Olympia (my first child); a lot of people don’t know I was two months pregnant when I won the 2017 Australian Open.”
Regarding her evolution outside of tennis, Serena added, “I don’t like the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve always thought of it as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how we use the word, which means something very specific and important to a certain community. Perhaps the best word to describe what I am trying to do is ‘evolve’. I want to convey that I am evolving away from tennis. A few years ago, I quietly started a venture capital firm, ‘Celina Ventures,’ and shortly thereafter, I started a family. I want to grow that family,” she says of her evolution outside of tennis.
As for wanting another child, he added, “Last year, Alexis and I were trying to have another child. I recently got some information from my doctor that put my mind at ease and made me feel that we could always add to our family.” She revealed that she is considering a second child in the future.
This is not the first time Serena has mentioned retirement; she has been talking about it for years. Serena plans to compete in the 2022 US Open, which will begin on August 29.
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