23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams wants to come back to phrases with the truth that she may not have a fairytale ending to her celebrated profession when she steps out to play the US Open 2022 on the Flushing Meadows most likely for one final time subsequent week, in line with tennis nice Martina Navratilova.
Serena Williams hinted at retirement after US Open 2022, signaling her intentions in an article for fashionable journal vogue. While saying she was ‘evolving away from tennis’, Serena didn’t verify US Open could be her final event.
However, Navratilova believes that Flushing Meadows, the place Williams received the primary of her 23 Grand Slam titles in 1999, would be the place she takes her remaining bow.
The legendary tennis participant stated Serena Williams must be ready to regulate her feelings and are available to phrases together with her type within the farewell leg of her tour.
“It’s hard. When I retired in ’93 I told the press it was my last year which was a mistake because every single tournament was a freaking tear-jerker,” Navratilova stated, as quoted by Reuters information company.
“Serena did it her way, which was announcing in a very glamorous way on Vogue magazine, but then she is not accepting the losses, she is not accepting what comes with it which is saying goodbye,” she added.
‘NO MIRACULOUS COMEBACK’
Beaten within the final 16 at Roland Garros in June 2021, Williams has performed sporadically and that has been mirrored in her outcomes, profitable just one match since.
At the Cincinnati Open final week, her remaining tune-up forward of the U.S. Open which begins Aug. 29, Williams was humbled 6-4 6-0 by U.S. Open champion Raducanu and marched off the courtroom stone-faced, barely acknowledging an adoring crowd.
However, Serena appeared sharp as she started coaching in New York for the US Open, whereby the legendary participant will bid for an unlikely victory, which is able to assist her equal Margaret Court’s report of 24 Grand Slam titles.
“Emotions can only carry you so far, I don’t see a Cinderella happy ending where she wins the tournament. The way she has looked it doesn’t look like she is going to make a miraculous comeback and win the tournament,” Navratilova stated.
“And with the stress of knowing this is likely your last tournament it doesn’t help.
“But if anybody can overcome it will be Serena.”
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