A big tennis fan, Tiger Woods was thinking of attending Serena Williams’ farewell on Wednesday evening in New York, but the legend of women’s tennis has decided to go into extra time by eliminating the number 2 seed from the tournament.
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No one knows who will have the skin of Serena Williams who decided to hang up the racket after the US Open 2022.
After advancing through the first round, the 40-year-old got rid of No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (7-4) 2-6 6-2 last night at Flushing Meadows.
605th player in the world, she is therefore still in the running to win her seventh US Open and her 24th Grand Slam title in singles.
And Serena was not lacking in courtside support. Among the many spectators, Tiger Woods was there and did not hesitate to shout encouragement to the one who has great admiration for him.
“He’s one of the reasons I’m here, one of the main reasons I’m still playing,” Serena Williams said after her victory. “We talked a lot. He was really trying to motivate me. When you can count on someone like that, I mean, it’s Tiger Woods, it’s easier to see through it.”
Sitting not far from Venus Williams, Serena’s sister, Tiger Woods who does not hide his great admiration for Roger Federer did not miss anything from the meeting.
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American tennis player.
Nicknamed The Queen, she is considered one of the best tennis players of all time, also by legends of this sport as Chris Evert, thanks to his physical and mental strength, his powerful groundstrokes and the best serve on the circuit, during a twenty-seven-year professional career (1995-2022). She became world number one for the first time on 8 July 2002 and occupied this position for a grand total of 319 weeks, third in the all-time ranking (behind Steffi Graf with 377 and Martina Navrátilová with 331) ; however, she is in first place for consecutive weeks as the best in the ranking (186, like Graf).
Williams has won 73 WTA singles titles: 23 of these are Grand Slam events (absolute record in the Open Era, men included), making her the second player ever to have won more Majors in this specialty behind only Margaret Smith Court, who excels with 24. He has accomplished the virtual Grand Slam, which consists in winning four consecutive Slams not in the same calendar year, twice (in the two years 2002-2003 and 2014-2015), a feat that has been renamed in her honor as Serena Slam. It can also boast five WTA Finals and 19 Premier category tournaments (6 Premier Mandatory, 6 Premier 5 and 7 Premier), as well as 21 Tier I and Tier II titles and the gold medal won at the London Olympics in 2012 against Marija Šarapova.