Serena Williams’s retirement essay “reads most powerfully as an acknowledgment of the things she can’t do, and of the pain that comes with that—even as new opportunities do, too,” louisahthomas writes.
, her impending retirement, I forgot, for a moment, the long list of her accomplishments. I didn’t think about her records, her unmatched aura of dominance, her transformation from athlete into cultural force—into someone who demanded, by simply being who she was, that people change the way they talk about female athletes, and Black female athletes in particular. Those changes resonated beyond sports.
It’s one of the fundamental questions of parenthood—not only how much you should try to control your kids but how much you really can. Williams has said that she did not plan to conceive a child just before the 2017 Australian Open—which she would win, defeating her sister,—but that the birth of her daughter, later that year, was a great blessing. She now says that she is leaving tennis in order to try for another child.
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