Serena Williams, the world-famous tennis champion and sports star, has announced that she is retiring from the sport in an article for Vogue magazine.
The decision to win the Grand Slam title did not come easily, but Williams has made it clear that she would like to expand her family.
Williams may be one of the most famous tennis players in the world, but she is also a successful businesswoman, having founded her own venture capital company a few years ago.
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In addition to her tennis career, Williams a few years ago created Serena Ventures, a venture capital firm. The company is made up of six people in Florida, Texas and California. Williams started investing nine years ago and “fell in love really early stage” whether it was seed funding or start-up.
“I wrote one of the first checks for MasterClass,” Williams said. “It’s one of 16 unicorn companies—companies valued at more than $1 billion—that Serena Ventures funded, along with Tonal, Impossible Foods, Noom, and Esusu, to name a few.” “
She also explained that 78% of their portfolio is companies created by women and people of color.
Serena Williams announces her retirement from tennis
In an article she wrote for Vogue, Williams explained that her decision to retire stemmed from her desire to expand her family, and that her daughter Olympia would like to be an older sister.
However, she “never wanted to choose between tennis and family” and claimed that if she was “young” she would be able to keep playing and winning.
Williams said that although she won the Australian Open in 2017 while two months pregnant, she is now 41 this month, which means “something has to come”.
The tennis star said: “I never liked that word the retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I was thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something specific and very important to a community of people. Probably the best word to describe what I do is has evolved.“
“I’m here to tell you that I’m developing away from tennis, towards other things that are important to me,” Williams continued.
“I feel a strong pain”
Williams was “reluctant” to admit to herself and others more than she had to “move from playing tennis,” and barely spoke about the topic with her husband, Alexis.
She said, “I can’t even have this conversation with Mom and Dad. It’s like it’s not real until you say it out loud. The command came, and I got an uncomfortable lump in my throat, and I started crying. The only person I’ve really gone with is my therapist!”
Although other athletes are “looking forward to retirement,” Williams doesn’t feel that way, and instead feels a great deal of pain.
“It’s the hardest thing I can ever imagine. I hate it. I hate being at this crossroads. I keep saying to myself, ‘I wish it were easy for me, but it’s not. I’m torn: I don’t want it to end,'” Williams said. It’s okay, but at the same time I’m ready for what’s coming.”
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