Serena Williams announces retirement

AMERICAN legend Serena Williams, winner of 23 Grand Slam titles, announced her retirement from tennis last week, saying she is ‘evolving away’ from the sport.

The 40-year-old tennis star said that the best word to describe what she is up to is ‘evolution’ and that she wants to grow her family. ‘I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people,’ Serena said in an article for Vogue magazine.