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The end of an era: Serena Williams was kicked out of the US Championship and will announce her retirement

The tennis player who broke all the records succumbed in three sets to Tomlianovic, in what was probably the last match of her career at the age of 40: "These are tears of happiness," she admitted at the end

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03/09/2022

Saturday, September 03, 2022, 06:30

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This was probably Serena Williams' last dance.

About three weeks before celebrating her 40th birthday, the American tennis player succumbed tonight (between Friday and Saturday) 7:5, 6:7 (4), 6:1 to the Australian Ayla Tomlianovic (46th in the world), ending her path in the US Open Championship in the round The third and soon she is expected to announce her retirement from tennis.

Williams has been competing in professional tennis for 27 years, during which time she won every possible title: four Olympic gold medals, 23 Grand Slam titles, 14 Grand Slam wins in the doubles tournament, the only female tennis player to win the "Golden Slam" in singles and doubles (winning all four Grand Slams and an Olympic medal in the same year ) and also the woman who spent the longest time at the top of the world ranking - 186 consecutive weeks.

In total, Serena Williams won 367 major matches, the most in women's tennis.

She has won the US Open six times in the past, the most in the Open era alongside Chris Evert.

She won a total of 73 titles.

Farewell to a legend.

Serena (Photo: GettyImages, ANGELA WEISS)

Williams is currently ranked 413th in the world and in the third round of the current championship she came to the surprise of many, especially in light of the fact that she passed the second ranked player in the world, Annette Contebite.

She also fought fairly against Tomlianovic and was not far from surprising the Australian - in the first set, Williams led 3:5, but then her opponent won four consecutive games on the way to 0:1 in sets.

Williams came out of the second set with the upper hand after a tiebreaker, but the third and decisive set was all the Australian's who won 1:6 and at the end she found it hard to believe that in her first ever match against Williams, she was the one who apparently led to the farewell of a legend.

At the end of the match and with tears flowing from her eyes, Serena Williams also did not forget her sister who was sitting in the stands and said: "I wouldn't be Serena if it wasn't for Venus, so thank you. She is the only reason Serena Williams existed. I think these are tears of happiness."

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She was moved to tears.

Serena Williams (Photo: GettyImages, COREY SIPKIN)

Throughout the tennis world, they began to say goodbye to Williams and thank her for a wonderful career, with Michelle Obama also among the congratulators: "Congratulations to you on an amazing career, Serena. We were all lucky to be able to see you as a young girl, growing up and becoming one of the best athletes of all time. I'm proud of you, Society".

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