{"id":1597743,"date":"2022-08-09T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597743"},"modified":"2022-08-09T18:47:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T22:47:24","slug":"nothing-is-a-sacrifice-for-me-serena-williams-announces-her-retirement-from-tennis-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nothing-is-a-sacrifice-for-me-serena-williams-announces-her-retirement-from-tennis-explains-why\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nothing Is A Sacrifice For Me\u2019: Serena Williams Announces Her Retirement From Tennis, Explains Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnothing-is-a-sacrifice-for-me-serena-williams-announces-her-retirement-from-tennis-explains-why%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Superstar Serena Williams announced her retirement from tennis and said that \u201cnothing is a sacrifice for her,\u201d as she explained that she\u2019s choosing building her family rather than her tennis r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy article written by the 40-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/serena-williams\">tennis superstar<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/serena-williams-retirement-in-her-own-words\">Vogue<\/a>,\u00a0Serena talked about how much she will miss the part of her that played tennis, but that she\u2019s come to a moment in her life when she wants to grow her family and doesn\u2019t want to be \u201cpregnant again as an athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams and husband Alexis Ohanian share a daughter, Alexis Olympia, who turns five this month.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Vogue\u2019s September issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/serenawilliams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@serenawilliams<\/a> prepares to say farewell to tennis on her own terms and in her own words. \u201cIt\u2019s the hardest thing that I could ever imagine,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t want it to be over, but at the same time I\u2019m ready for what\u2019s next\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Zr0UXVTH1\">https:\/\/t.co\/6Zr0UXVTH1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YtGtcc18a9\">pic.twitter.com\/YtGtcc18a9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/voguemagazine\/status\/1556984065319903232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family,\u201d the tennis star wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair. If I were a guy, I wouldn\u2019t be writing this because I\u2019d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I\u2019d be more of a Tom Brady if I had that opportunity,\u201d she added. \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong: I love being a woman, and I loved every second of being pregnant with Olympia. I was one of those annoying women who adored being pregnant and was working until the day I had to report to the hospital\u2014although things got super complicated on the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I almost did do the impossible: A lot of people don\u2019t realize that I was two months pregnant when I won the Australian Open in 2017,\u201d Williams continued. \u201cBut I\u2019m turning 41 this month, and something\u2019s got to give. I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn\u2019t feel like a modern word to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The athlete explained that she\u2019d rather think of this time as \u201ca transition\u201d and \u201cevolution,\u201d and wrote that she\u2019s\u00a0\u201cevolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few years ago I quietly started Serena Ventures, a venture capital firm. Soon after that, I started a family. I want to grow that family,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/williams-told-ramos-hes-never-ump-one-her-matches-amanda-prestigiacomo\">Williams<\/a>\u00a0shared, while at the same time admitting the idea of retirement brings her a \u201cgreat deal of pain\u201d and is not something she\u2019s looking forward to. She wrote that she\u2019s \u201ctorn: I don\u2019t want it to be over, but at the same time I\u2019m ready for what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And she shared that \u201cif I have to choose between building my tennis r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and building my family, I choose the latter,\u201d as she explained that when it comes to her daughter, \u201cnothing is a sacrifice\u201d for her. \u201cIt all just makes sense,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar Serena Williams announced her retirement from tennis and said that \u201cnothing is a sacrifice for her,\u201d as she explained that she\u2019s choosing building her family rather than her tennis r\u00e9sum\u00e9. In a lengthy article written by the 40-year-old tennis superstar for Vogue,\u00a0Serena talked about how much she will miss the part of her that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1597849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}