Serena Williams acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that she was retiring from tennis, saying in a poignant as-told-to cover story in Vogue that she had made the difficult decision to give her family her full attention.
“Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family. I don’t think it’s fair,” wrote Williams, who didn’t specify exactly when she will hang up her racket but is set to play in the U.S. Open, which begins August 29. “If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.”
(Curtesy Forbes)