Serena Williams might have retired from tennis, however that doesn’t imply she’ll essentially keep retired.
The celebrity athlete hinted at a doable comeback throughout a dialog wherein she and sister Venus Williams sat down with Oscar-nominated actor/director Bradley Cooper for the A+E Networks and the Historical past Channel’s Historical past Talks in Washington D.C.
Through the dialog, reported Selection, Cooper addressed Serena’s retirement, following her last match on the U.S. Open earlier this month.
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“I simply wanted to cease,” she stated of the choice to step again from tennis.
“I at all times stated I wished to cease once I’m taking part in actually good tennis and successful and beating good gamers. For me, it’s actually about issues I need to do spiritually and spending time with my daughter and household,” she continued.
“As an excellent hands-on mother, I can’t inform you how arduous it was. I misplaced so many matches after I had Olympia as a result of it was so arduous to be on the courtroom. I really feel like I’ve given a lot of my life to tennis, my whole life, that it’s time to do one thing totally different for me and likewise work on different issues,” she added.
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Regardless of Williams’ retirement, she hinted {that a} return to tennis isn’t off the desk.
“I really feel like if I need to come again, I undoubtedly can nonetheless come again,” she confirmed.