'It's been a fun ride': tears and tributes as Serena Williams 'evolves' out of tennis

Pure grit and scintillating play - Williams's curtain call against Ajla Tomljanović demonstrated how she changed all sport for ever Serena Williams doesn't much like the word "retirement". The 40-year-old athlete thinks it sounds old-fashioned. She prefers to say that she is in "transition", although she's well aware that's a sensitive concept in 2022, so generally when she's asked about what's next for her, Williams settles on "evolution". Whichever term she chooses, the undeniable facts are t...