Serena Williams is making her return to competing in tennis tournaments after taking a year-long break due to an injury. This year was her 21st Wimbledon in her tennis career. In the 2021 Wimbledon tournament, Williams tore her right hamstring after slipping during her match against Aliaksandra Sasnovich. She hadn’t played a singles match since that fateful event.
Serena Williams said, “It was always something since the match ended, that was always on my mind. So it was a tremendous amount of motivation.” Despite this, in her 3-hour and 11-minute long first match against Harmony Tan, Williams was defeated 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7).
After the 2019 Wimbledon competition, Serena Williams switched her tennis coach from Patrick Mouratoglou to Venus Williams’s coach, Eric Hechtman.
Williams now owns a venture capital firm called Serena Ventures, as well as being mother to her 4-year-old daughter Olympia. In an interview this past Saturday, she noted, “A part of me feels like that is a little bit more of my life now than tournaments.”
In her interview on Saturday, Serena Williams was vague about many topics, including when she decided to compete in the 2022 Wimbledon tournament. She also shied away from making any comments on her political opinions. When asked about her opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, she simply remarked that it was “an interesting question” and said that she didn’t have any views she was ready to share about that decision.
This is unlike many other female American athletes. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe and track star Allyson Felix have both voiced their opinions on the Supreme Court’s decision. According to The New York Times, “Rapinoe has expressed opposition to the court’s decision, which removes the constitutional right to have an abortion, but Williams chose not to offer a viewpoint.”
Coco Gauff, a young American tennis athlete, has also expressed her disagreement with the Supreme Court’s ruling, saying that she felt “disappointed about the decision” and that she felt bad for the women who had protested for the right to abortion.
Williams also refrained from commenting about Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian tennis athletes from competing in the 2022 tournament, saying that it was another topic that “involves a tremendous amount of politics”. She remarked in the interview on Saturday that she was “going to step away from that.”
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Serena Williams said, “It was always something since the match ended, that was always on my mind. So it was a tremendous amount of motivation.” Despite this, in her 3-hour and 11-minute long first match against Harmony Tan, Williams was defeated 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7).
After the 2019 Wimbledon competition, Serena Williams switched her tennis coach from Patrick Mouratoglou to Venus Williams’s coach, Eric Hechtman.
Williams now owns a venture capital firm called Serena Ventures, as well as being mother to her 4-year-old daughter Olympia. In an interview this past Saturday, she noted, “A part of me feels like that is a little bit more of my life now than tournaments.”
In her interview on Saturday, Serena Williams was vague about many topics, including when she decided to compete in the 2022 Wimbledon tournament. She also shied away from making any comments on her political opinions. When asked about her opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, she simply remarked that it was “an interesting question” and said that she didn’t have any views she was ready to share about that decision.
This is unlike many other female American athletes. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe and track star Allyson Felix have both voiced their opinions on the Supreme Court’s decision. According to The New York Times, “Rapinoe has expressed opposition to the court’s decision, which removes the constitutional right to have an abortion, but Williams chose not to offer a viewpoint.”
Coco Gauff, a young American tennis athlete, has also expressed her disagreement with the Supreme Court’s ruling, saying that she felt “disappointed about the decision” and that she felt bad for the women who had protested for the right to abortion.
Williams also refrained from commenting about Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian tennis athletes from competing in the 2022 tournament, saying that it was another topic that “involves a tremendous amount of politics”. She remarked in the interview on Saturday that she was “going to step away from that.”
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