{"id":97880,"date":"2022-08-09T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=97880"},"modified":"2022-08-09T17:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:43:44","slug":"serena-williams-announces-retirement-from-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/serena-williams-announces-retirement-from-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams announces retirement from tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">United States tennis champion, Serena Williams, announced on Tuesday that \u2018the countdown has begun\u2019 to her retirement from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam winner, added that a time has come in her life for her to move in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old said in a post on Instagram that she has to focus on being a mum and achieve her spiritual growth.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote, \u201cThere comes a time in life when we have to decide to move in a different direction. That time is always hard when you love something so much. My goodness do I enjoy tennis. But now, the countdown has begun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to focus on being a mom, my spiritual goals, and finally discovering a different, but just exciting Serena. I\u2019m gonna relish these next few weeks.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIn an exclusive piece in Vogue magazine, Williams noted that she had never liked the word \u2018retirement\u2019 but would rather go with the word \u2018evolution\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI have never liked the word retirement. It doesn\u2019t feel like a modern word to me. I\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe the best word to describe what I\u2019m up to is evolution. 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