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United States professional tennis player, 1995–2022
United States · b. 1981
Won twenty-three Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other player in the professional era, and four Olympic gold medals. She announced her departure from the sport in a first-person essay for Vogue in August 2022 and played her final match at that year's US Open.
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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. Maybe the best word to describe what I'm up to is evolution. I'm here to tell you that I'm evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.
Recorded First-person essay, Vogue September 2022 issue, 9 August 2022 source
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