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The Cover Story | What Serena Williams Gave the World | | | By Sean Gregory | Senior Sports Correspondent, TIME | The greatest female athlete of all time—check that: perhaps the greatest athlete of all time—has been thinking a lot about the reason she's vowed to hang up her racket for good. "Olympia doesn't like when I play tennis," Serena Williams says plainly about her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. When Williams told Olympia, who turns 5 on Sept. 1, that she was soon to be done with the life that made her an inspiration to millions, Olympia's reply was as joyful as her mother's celebrations after so many Grand Slam wins: a fist-pumping "Yes!" "That kind of makes me sad," says Williams, leaning forward in her chair in the library of a New York City hotel. "And brings anxiety to my heart." No kid understands their parent's absence. But Williams has spent the last few years of her incomparable career tormented by what she's been sacrificing in order to keep going. "It's hard to completely commit," says Williams, "when your flesh and blood is saying, Aw." | Read the Story » | Share the cover story | | | |
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