Serena Williams to retire from competitive tennis soon
World tennis icon, Serena Williams, said she would soon retire from the game which has given her immense fame.
Indeed, the world first came to know Serena Williams as a 17-year-old with beaded braids, overwhelming power and precocious intelligence and poise when she stunned her sport by winning the first of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles at the 1999 U.S. Open.
So began a journey that, with plenty of help from her sister Venus and her trailblazing parents, changed the game, transcended tennis and turned Williams into a beacon of fashion, entertainment and business, shifting the way people inside and outside of sports viewed female athletes.
Show moreSerena Williams says she will retire from tennis sometime after the U.S. Open.
Over her career, Serena Williams spent 319 weeks ranked as the No. 1 player in the world by the Women’s Tennis Association, including 186 consecutive weeks from February 2013 to September 2016. Only Steffi Graf (377) and Martina Navratilova (332) have spent more time as the world’s top-ranked player.
So far, Williams has won 73 singles tournaments, her last coming in January 2020 at the ASB Classic in New Zealand. Her number of tournament wins ranks fifth all-time, although she often played far fewer events than other players, choosing instead to concentrate on Grand Slams.
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