Serena Williams on Monday, native time, mentioned she has not retired from tennis and that the possibilities of her returning are “very excessive” after she beforehand indicated that she would step away from the game after final month’s US Open.
“I’m not retired,” Williams mentioned at a convention in San Francisco whereas selling her funding firm, Serena Ventures.
“The probabilities [of a return] are very excessive. You’ll be able to come to my home. I’ve a court docket.”
Williams, 41, mentioned she was “evolving away from tennis” in an essay in August and, whereas she didn’t verify the US Open as her farewell occasion, she was given lavish tributes earlier than every match in New York and waved an emotional goodbye after shedding within the third spherical.
With 23-time grand slam titles below her belt, the champion — who took the tennis world by storm as a youngster and is taken into account by many as the best of all time — mentioned not making ready for a event after the US Open didn’t really feel pure to her.
“I nonetheless have not actually considered [retirement],” Williams mentioned, “however I did get up the opposite day and go on the court docket and [considered] for the primary time in my life that I am not taking part in for a contest, and it felt actually bizarre.
“It was like the primary day of the remainder of my life and I am having fun with it, however I am nonetheless looking for that steadiness.”
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