Serena Williams was defeated in her third round match at the U.S. Open on Friday, likely bringing an end to her extraordinary singles tennis career.
Unwilling to go quietly, Williams staved off five match points to prolong the three-hours-plus proceedings, as some spectators stood to watch, camera phones at the ready. No one — save, of course, Tomljanovic — wanted this to end.If this was, indeed, the last hurrah, she took her fans on a thrill-a-minute throwback ride at the hard-court tournament that was the site of a half-dozen of her 23 Grand Slam championships. The first came in 1999 in New York, when Williams was just 17.
"Yeah, I've been pretty vague about it, right?" Williams said following her win in the first round."I'm going to stay vague, because you never know."against Danka Kovinić of Montenegro was a star-studded affair, with the likes of Spike Lee, Francisco Lindor, former President Bill Clinton and Katie Couric in attendance.
Williams won 10 of those titles after turning 30, more than any other woman in the history of the sport. Her last singles title came in 2017 at the Australian Open, where she defeated her sister in straight sets.
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