Serena Williams, the 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion, is retiring from the sport.
In the long and detailed essay, Williams notes that she was two months pregnant with Olympia when she won the Australian Open in 2017.
“I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me,” Williams said in a Vogue essay announcing her intentions to stop playing in the near future.
She cited her age, 41, and the fact that she and husband Alexis Ohanian would like to expand their family, as reasons for the decision.