Serena Williams has announced that her retirement from tennis is close at hand, she confirmed the news via a first-person piece for Vogue magazine
Williams won her first singles match for more than a year at the National Bank Open in Toronto on Monday evening but says she plans to end her career.
She committed to playing at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati next week as well as the US Open later this month, and it appears that will be her final tournament.
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If so, it will be her last chance to equal Margaret Court’s record; Williams has 23 Grand Slam titles to hear name, one shy of the current record.
