Serena Williams announces retirement

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 Iconic tennis star, Serena Williams announced her retirement on August 9, 2022. She will say goodbye to tennis after the US Open,  scheduled to take place from August 29 to May 11 9 in 2022. She announced her retirement because she wanted to focus. about his family life.


Serena Williams - Important facts about her

  • The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her number one in the world in singles. 1 in 319 weeks.
  • During her career, she has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most of any player in the Open Era.
  • She has additionally received seventy three profession singles titles and 23 profession doubles titles. 
  •  She turned into born to Oracene Price and Richard Williams, who skilled Serena and her older sister Venus Williams.
  • She turned  professional tennis player in 1995.
  • At the 1999 US Open, she won her first major singles title.
  • She dominated from the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open, winning all four major singles titles. As a result, she achieved an unscheduled Grand Slam as well as a career Grand Slam, known as the "Serena Slam".
  • In 2012, she won Olympic gold and became the first tennis player to win a  Golden Slam in her career in singles and doubles.
  • She has been the world's highest-paid female athlete since 2016. In 2017, she was the only woman on Forbes' list of 100 highest-paid athletes. In 2021, she takes the 28th place in the Forbes list of the highest paid athletes in the world.

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