Serena Williams, the Erina of world tennis, played her final game at the U.S open last week. However, was it her final game? The truth in sports is that legends never retire.
Serena, who had been the dominant face in world sports for a long time, while playing the last match in the U.S. Open, the USTA executive director thanked the living legend of tennis Serena Williams. She welcomed the new faces of the sports.
Serena's decades-long career no doubt has a real, lasting impact on the sport. Remarkably, U.S. Open witnessed record attendance, rating and merch sales this year.
Much gossip and news howled in the air that Serena had retired, which happened multiple times over the year. But is it the journey Serena towards the end part of her career as a player?
In the same way that people were excited about Venus and Serena when they first started playing, the USTA has added 5 million new players and 2.3 million junior players between 2019 and 2021.
The last black queen of tennis who dominated the tennis court for over a decade recently stated that she was about to keep herself away from the game's evolution, which ended in her retirement.
Serena, who is 40 years old now, in her 27 years of career, won 23 grand slams worth 260 million us dollars and had been the highest earning female athlete in the world. The tennis queen says it’s time for her to focus on her family.
Her last wish in her last press conference appearance is that she wants people to remember her as a fighter. And “Passion” is the word she uttered as the best word to describe her career.
What Serena said was she could go on with her career, but she had been struggling with continuing ups and downs.
And the 23 times grand slam winner never had the audacious feelings to declare herself as one of the greatest while the world was declaring so that disputably Serena is the greatest of all time.
The tears were coming down from her eyes, percolating from her cheeks to nowhere but in the golden history of tennis.
The world of sports will never forget Serena’s contribution and effort all through these years and her smiley crying, ambiguous face full of emotions saying her reigning career goodbye.
And she deservingly said, “ I am grateful, I had this moment, and i am Serena.”
Yes, She is Serena. And We say, Thank you, Serena!
