Highlights
- Serena Williams is a 23-time Grand Slam Winner
- Williams gained her first main match in September 1999
- Serena was defeated by Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic
US Open 2022: The time is right here, the time that noticed Serena Williams bow out of worldwide Tennis. Speculations about Serena’s retirement have been at all times rife and she or he too had been vocal about the identical. The 42-years-old Tennis star was already clear in her head that she needs to stroll away from the sport after her street ends at the US Open. In the continued US Open, Williams confirmed glimpses of what she was as an athlete in her prime. Williams defeated Danka Kovinic of Montenegro within the first spherical and adopted it up by defeating world quantity 2 Anett Kontaveit. On the opposite, she together with Venus crashed out of the ladies’s doubles first spherical owing to a defeat at the arms of Linda Noskova and Lucie Hradecka.
The GOAT, the legend, Serena Williams took on Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic in what ended up changing into a thunderous battle of 7-5, 6-7 (7-4), 6-1 at the Arthur Ashe Stadium. The match which went as much as 180 minutes had all the weather that Serena’s final match was worthy of. It is protected to say that this match will definitely go down in historical past books because it was nothing in need of a traditional.Â
Williams did drop a really shut opening set however it didn’t dampen her spirits. She was extraordinarily fast to go 4-0 up within the second set and seemed like a contender to clinch the third set. But Ajla Tomljanovichad had another concepts in her thoughts. The Aussie got here again onerous and gained 4 straight video games and closed out on the primary set. She pressured a tiebreak which she almost gained however Williams by some means managed to interrupt free and escaped with a 7-4 win to increase the match.
The match which went as much as three hours exhausted the 42-year-old Tennis participant as she dropped the following two units shortly. At one time limit, it felt that the whole stadium was rooting in opposition to Tomljanovic who managed to take the final set which ended Serena’s illustrious profession.
“Thank you so much, you guys were amazing today. I wish I played a little bit better. Thank you, daddy, I know you’re watching. Thanks, mom,” Williams mentioned on the courtroom. “I just thank everyone that’s here, that’s been on my side so many years, decades. Oh my gosh, literally decades. But it all started with my parents, and they deserve everything, so I’m grateful for them“, mentioned Serena as she bid adieu to the sport to she has contributed a lot to.
