At 40 years of age, Williams saved up to five match points in the final set before falling to Tomljanovic 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 after three hours of emotionally charged match.
Serena, who amazed the world with two epic victories in this Grand Slam, did not definitively confirm if she will put an end to her career once eliminated from this US Open, although in a passionate final speech she said goodbye to her relatives and the public that followed her throughout her legendary professional path, “the most wonderful journey of my life” as the protagonist herself described it.
Thanking her parents, who guided her to become a tennis player, and her sister Venus, without whom “there would have been no Serena,” the youngest of the Williams women greeted a tearful crowd at the Arthur Ashe court, the largest stadium in the world. world in the ‘white sport’.
With 23 Grand Slam singles titles, 73 WTA trophies in total, and having been No. 1 in the world for 313 weeks as well as an Olympic champion in singles and doubles, the Serena Williams era concluded its last chapter on Friday.
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