Serena Williams Says "I Am Not Retired"
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Serena Williams isn't done with tennis quite yet.
"I am not retired," Williams said at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco earlier this week, per the San Francisco Standard. "The chances [of me returning] are very high. You can come to my house and [see] I have a court."
Her outing to promote her fund, Serena Ventures, was her first appearance since her tearful goodbye at the 2022 U.S. Open—where it really seemed as if she retired. Ahead of the Grand Slam tournament, Williams wrote in Vogue that she was "evolving away from tennis."
"I have never liked the word retirement," she said. "Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me." Yet, a month later, when Roger Federer announced his retirement from the sport, Williams wrote in a post to him, "welcome to the retirement club."
In addition, on her friend Meghan Markle's Archetypes podcast, Williams told the Duchess of Sussex of her impending retirement, "I've been doing this since I was—since I can remember. And I'm 40 years old now, so it's like my whole entire being and my whole entire life has been for one purpose. So to kind of not do that anymore, it's exciting, right? I'm really looking forward to it."
Yet, her comments this week throw her retirement from the sport into question—however, whether or not Williams actually returns to the sport of competitive tennis has yet to be seen. After the Open, her longtime hitting partner Sascha Bajin tweeted, "I saw that lots of you guys wrote me why I haven’t made a post about Serena’s retirement. Let’s say it like this, I just don’t think she’s done I don’t know anything you don’t know but something tells me we gonna see her again."
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