Serena Williams drops cryptic trace she is going to unretire from tennis after encounter

Serena Williams has whetted the urge for food of her followers by dropping a touch on social media that prompt she would possibly come out of retirement. The 23-time grand slam champion hung up her racket after final yr’s US Open to focus on elevating her household and was due to this fact absent from Wimbledon this month.

With seven Wimbledon girls’s singles titles to her title, the 41-year-old has achieved all the pieces there’s to realize within the sport, however maybe lacking out on the grasscourt spectacle is making her rethink her actions.

Taking to Twitter on Friday Williams wrote: “I was at a book store the other day and someone came up to me and said I retired too early…”

Williams received 73 titles throughout her profession, ending with a document in matches that learn 858 wins and 156 losses. Her elder sister, Venus Williams, has not but thrown the towel in and was at Wimbledon this yr after being granted a wildcard place.

But the 43-year-old was knocked out within the first spherical by fellow wildcard entry Elina Svitolina in straight units, with the Ukrainian happening to make all of it the best way to the semi-finals.

Venus Williams is now ranked exterior the highest 500 and any potential return to Serena Williams would contain climbing her method again up the rankings.

A return to tennis wouldn’t be an entire shock, given the character of Williams’ retirement affirmation in an interview with Vogue journal final yr.

The all-time nice mentioned: “There is no happiness in this topic for me. I know it’s not the usual thing to say, but I feel a great deal of pain. It’s the hardest thing that I could ever imagine. I hate it. I hate that I have to be at this crossroads. I keep saying to myself, I wish it could be easy for me, but it’s not. I’m torn: I don’t want it to be over, but at the same time I’m ready for what’s next.”

Williams’ cryptic tweet throughout Wimbledon isn’t the primary time she has teased a comeback nevertheless it stays to be seen whether or not a yr away from the game has left her feeling unfulfilled professionally.

Her success at Wimbledon was not restricted to the ladies’s singles. Alongside sister Venus she was topped doubles champion six occasions and in addition received the combined doubles title as soon as in 1998 with Belarus male participant Max Mirnyi.