Serena Williams teases return to aggressive tennis, says Tom Brady 'began a extremely cool development'

After a year-long absence, Williams made a short return to singles tennis this yr when she competed at Wimbledon, the Nationwide Financial institution Open, the Western & Southern Open and the US Open, successful three matches. She additionally competed in doubles tennis in a number of tournaments.

"I really feel like tennis has given me a lot and I really feel like there is not any means that I do not need to be concerned in tennis in some way sooner or later," she mentioned.

"I do not know what that involvement is but, however I do know that I like the game a lot."

Over the course of her 27-year tennis profession, Williams received 39 grand slam titles throughout singles and doubles and 73 WTA Tour singles titles.

As a part of her plans to "evolve away from tennis," Williams mentioned she can be specializing in her younger household, in addition to pursuing her enterprise pursuits and charity ambassador roles.

She has additionally authored her first youngsters's e-book, "The Adventures of Qai Qai," a few younger woman's journey along with her doll and finest buddy, Qai Qai. It releases later this month.

"It is so genuine," mentioned Williams. "It is a story that we got here up with throughout Covid and this explicit e-book of Qai Qai is absolutely nearly utilizing your creativeness as a result of youngsters have such a tremendous creativeness.

"We could not go away the home and I used to be taking part in with Olympia and our canine Qai Qai who has this superb persona ... We wished to essentially simply put in individuals's minds that we will not overlook how necessary it's to make use of your creativeness and play."