Serena Williams announces she will 'evolve away from tennis' after US Open

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Serena Williams has announced that she will 'evolve away from tennis' after this year's US Open to focus on 'other things that are important to me'. 9News

, the 23-time grand slam winner said that, although she will try to win at the US Open, it is time for her to move "in a different direction".

"I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn't feel like a modern word to me," Williams wrote in the magazine article. Since losing her professional debut in September 1995, Williams has become the most dominant force in women's tennis in the last 30 years.Together with her old sister Venus, she transformed the sport, making a regular habit of winning grand slams in both singles and doubles tennis.

The four-time Olympic gold medalist has won more than US$94.5 million in career prize money, more than any other female athlete. "If I were a guy, I wouldn't be writing this because I'd be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labour of expanding our family.

 

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