Serena Williams plays final match in Canada, losing to Switzerland's Belinda Bencic at National Bank Open in Toronto. BG:
When Serena Williams made the first professional tennis appearance of her career in Quebec City on a chilly late-October day in 1995, at just 14 years old, there was no pomp and circumstance, no introductions and certainly no fans watching.The kid from Compton, Calif., who had travelled north toto begin her foray into the tennis world, was competing in a Tier 3 tournament qualifying match against 149th-ranked American Annie Miller.
And when she returned to the pro circuit two years after that opening match defeat, Williams was ready to take on the world and change the game forever.It only seems fitting then that after starting this tennis journey in Canada, she would announce her career is coming to an end in Canada.In a lengthy point-of-view article in Vogue Magazine, Williams says she's leaving the game in September.
In fact, Williams holds the record for the longest time between getting to the No. 1 position, that happened on July 8, 2002, and doing it again 14 years later in May, 2017.Ten of Williams' 23 Slam singles titles have come after she turned 30 years old.Not only does she hold the 23 Slam singles titles, she has another 14 Slam doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles to her name — that includes six U.S.
On a brilliantly sunny August afternoon three years ago, in 2019, Williams took to the court against the upstart Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu in the title match.There was the then 37-year-old tennis juggernaut taking on the hometown teen sensation — Williams turned pro five years before Andreescu was born.But that dream scenario quickly turned into a brief nightmare, when just four games into the match Williams retired with an injury.
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