Serena Williams said goodbye to tennis this morning when she fell in the third round of the US Open against the Australian Alja Tomljanovic 7-5, 6-7(4) and 6-1, after 2h 55m. The American, who will turn 41 on the 26th of this month, thus closes a monumental career in which she has played 986 games, won 73 titles and, above all, has collected 23 great ones that place her in the second historical position of the most successful players of history, only behind the Australian Margaret Court.
After putting up a terrific display in the first two rounds, Williams lost a spark point and let several trains pass by Tomljanovic. He rejoined in the tiebreak of the second set, but in the third, just out of gas, he could not counteract the rocky version of his rival. In this way, Flushing Meadows fired the legend after a week of strong emotions in which the tennis player managed to beat Danka Kovinic and Anett Kontaveit in the first two rounds.
The American conquered her first big in 1999, precisely in New York, which now marks her withdrawal. The tennis player, raised in a Californian suburb and projected towards the elite along with her sister Venus (41), states that at this stage of her life she has chosen to “evolve” and that she prefers to redouble her commitment to family her. On August 9, she published a writing in fashion in which he anticipated his exit plan and the duel against Tomljanovic meant his goodbye.
He leaves behind Court, although he had four options to match the record of the oceanic; However, he lost the four grand finals that he played between 2018 and 2019 – two at Wimbledon and another two in New York – and in recent times he had barely been able to compete. She has more majors than Graf (22), Navratilova (18) or Evert (18), as well as Nadal (22), Djokovic (21) and Federer (20).
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