“I look forward to waking up and just being like, OK, I don’t have to run to the court today,” Williams said.

Williams’ singles win was witnessed by her husband, Alexis Ohanian, and their daughter, Olympia, with the youngster wearing white beads in her hair, reminiscent of Williams’ look when she won the first of her six US Open titles as a teenager in 1999. NvsxXIjkGB- US Open Tennis August 30, 2022 When asked by Gayle King what winning will be for her in the future, Williams pointed to her venture capital company and also said she wants to work on her spiritual life. “Sometimes I think it’s hard to walk away than to not. “I think when you’re passionate about something and you love something so much, it’s always hard to walk away,” she said. “I’m going to stay vague because you never know.”īut earlier on the court, Williams, 40, said it was a difficult decision to move on. “Yeah, I’ve been pretty vague about it, right?” she said with a smile. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” she said.Īt her post-match news conference, she was asked if this is definitely her last tournament. “Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people,” Williams said in a Vogue article published earlier this month. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. It was Williams’ third match since announcing she will “evolve away from tennis.”

It was the first of 11 straight points for Williams as she coasted the rest of the way. But a Williams shot that looked long and wide was neither, nipping the back of the baseline and outside edge of the singles sideline. She won 33 of 43 first serve points.Ī key moment came in the sixth game of the first set when Kovinić appeared on the verge of a 4-2 lead. Williams double-faulted twice in the first game but eventually upped her first serve percentage to 66%. US Open: Serena Williams' last hurrah at home grand slam headlines fascinating two weeks of tennisĪfter the match, during a ceremony celebrating her tennis career, Williams said she got a boost from the vocal crowd of almost 24,000 people. Mandatory Credit: Jamie Squire /Allsport Jamie Squire/Getty Images North America/Getty Images : Serena Williams of the USA and Martina Hingis of Switzerland smile and pose with their trophies after their match in the US Open at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York.

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