Serena Williams ends her career

Serena Williams ends her career. PDO

Regarded as the greatest female tennis player of all time Serena Williams has announced that he will end his long playing career after the US Open in August-September.

40-year-old Williams told about his decision In Vogue magazine. He has suffered from injuries recently.

Williams told Vogue that she is moving on from tennis to other things that are important to her.

– I have never liked the word quitting. It doesn’t seem like a modern word to me. Perhaps the best word to describe this is evolution. I’m telling you I’m transitioning out of tennis, Williams said.

Williams is currently playing the WTA tournament in Toronto, where she won her opening round match on Monday.

Williams won 23 grand slams in her career. She is also a four-time Olympic champion, three of which came in doubles with her older sister of Venus with.

Williams won her first grand slam at the 1999 US Open when she was only 17 years old. The last big win came at the Australian Open in early 2017.

Williams gave birth to her first child Olympian in September 2017. His spouse Alexis Ohanian is known as one of the founders of the social website Reddit.

Williams told Vogue that they are planning another child with Ohania.

– I really don’t want to be pregnant as an athlete anymore. I have to have both feet in tennis or both feet out of it, Williams said.

Williams has won all four grand slam tournaments at least three times in her career. He won Wimbledon and the Australian Open no less than seven times.

She has accumulated more than 94.5 million dollars in prize money during her career, which is by far the most in the history of women’s tennis. Second on the list comes her big sister Venus with a good 42.2 million dollars.