“Yeah, I’ve been pretty vague about it, right?” she said with a smile. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” she said.Īt her post-match news conference Monday, Williams was asked if this is definitely her last tournament. “Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. 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,” Williams said in the Vogue article published earlier this month. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. It was Williams’ third match since announcing in Vogue magazine she will “evolve away from tennis” after the US Open. She began singles play Monday with a 6-3 6-3 victory over Danka Kovinić of Montenegro. Things have changed since she started playing at the Open, she said.
In my last few matches, it just wasn’t coming together.
Yeah, I haven’t played many matches, but I’ve been practicing really well. Tomljanovic, who was playing at the same time as Williams on Wednesday, defeated Russian Evgeniya Rodina 1-6, 6-2, 7-5.Īnd Williams is not playing just singles she will open doubles play with her sister Venus Williams on Thursday night. Williams will next face Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round. And I have absolutely nothing to lose,” she said. She referred to the long layoff in her interview Wednesday but said, “I love a challenge.” “After I lost the second set, I thought, ‘Oh, my goodness, I got to give my best effort because this could be it,’” Williams told ESPN in an on-court, post-match interview.Ī boisterous but behaved crowd cheered her every point. In Kontaveit, however, Williams faced a much sterner test and was undoubtedly the underdog on paper. Williams looked better than in previous matches this year, where she was still trying to shake the rust of a long layoff. Williams, playing what could be the last tournament of her career, won Wednesday evening, downing Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (4) 2-6 6-2 in New York. Williams chuckled as cheers washed over the court. After it was all over - after she’d won a thrilling second-round match, then did one of those iconic Serena twirls on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court before beaming as a tribute video from Oprah Winfrey played yet again – Serena Williams was asked if she was surprised at her level of play.Ī 40-year-old underdog in the final days of her storied career, Williams had just upset the world’s second-ranked player, a US Open outcome that seemed doubtful until it became inevitable.
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