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announced her pending retirementThe tennis superstar revealed she is putting away her racket because, at 40, she really wants a second child . But she talks about the conflict that creates in her mind, with her ambitions in tennis at war with her love of motherhood.Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Imagesrecord of 24 grand slam titles is of course the one Williams didn’t beat. With 23 grand slams, she was one tournament away from equalling it.
There are people who say I’m not the GOAT because I didn’t pass Margaret Court’s record of 24 grand slam titles, which she achieved before the “open era” that began in 1968. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want that record. Obviously I do. But day to day, I’m really not thinking about her. If I’m in a grand slam final, then yes, I am thinking about that record. Maybe I thought about it too much, and that didn’t help. The way I see it, I should have had 30-plus grand slams.
Williams is candid about her reticence in making the decision, reflecting that she wished she could welcome retirement the way that Australia’sI know that a lot of people are excited about and look forward to retiring, and I really wish I felt that way. Ashleigh Barty was number one in the world when she left the sport this March, and I believe she really felt ready to move on.
Services will operate normally until about 9am, when trains will be taken back to stabling yards and depots before the industrial action starts at 10am.We won’t be back to a full timetable on the T4 service until around about five or 5.30 in the afternoon.said the train services should not have been suspended, with about 90% of train crews still available to work. He said on Monday:
If [the network] is shut down, it will be because transport bureaucrats have simply decided they don’t want to run the trains, not because they can’t.
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