![]() ![]() (For those who have been hiding under a rock, she announced her imminent retirement in a Vogue magazine article published earlier this month.) Williams responded by powering past Kovinic in straight sets – 6-3, 6-3 – and extending her farewell tour for at least another couple of days. On a euphoric, almost hysterical night in New York, the 24,000 fans on Arthur Ashe Stadium screamed their lungs out for their peerless champion, who shimmered and swaggered in a glamorous black dress embroidered with hundreds of crystals. ![]() US Open organisers had booked Williams a farewell ceremony after her first-round meeting with Danka Kovinic, but they reckoned without the great woman’s ferocious self-belief. Was this Serena Williams’s swansong? Or was it the beginning of another miraculous US Open storyline? Perhaps a bit of both. ![]()
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