Serena Williams says she's ready to leave tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, focusing on having another child and her business interests Is matched.
She says, "She's 41 this month, but she needs to give something," Williams wrote in an essay published by Vogue on Tuesday.
She Williams doesn't like the word she retires and prefers to think of this stage of her life as "evolving from tennis to something else that is important to me." She said.
Williams will play this week in Toronto in a hardcourt tournament leading to her last Grand Slam event of the year, the U.S. Open, starting August 29 in New York.
Americans have won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other woman or man in their professional days. Only one player, Margaret Court, gathered 24, but she won part of her in her amateur days.
