Serena Williams Teases Possible Return to Tennis: 'Tom Brady Started an Amazing Trend'

Serena Williams is thinking about pulling a Tom Brady.

While making an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night (September 13), the 23-time Grand Slam champion discussed her decision to retire from tennis and hinted that she was considering the possibility of returning to the sport at some point.

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Jimmy asked “There’s no chance of you pulling a Tom Brady and saying, ‘Maybe I’m evolving to coming back,’” to which Serena replied: “You know what? Tom Brady started an amazing trend.”

“That’s what I want to say,” she added with a laugh.

Serena continued, “I think retirement is something that’s super-earned, that people work really hard for. But I just feel like I’m at an age where I definitely have a lot more to give, there’s a lot more I want to do, and so, I’m not going to be relaxing, there is so much more for me and I feel it’s more like an evolution of Serena.”

“And there’s so many things that I’ve been wanting to do for so many years and I have such a passion for tennis for so long that I have never done it but now it’s time for me to, like, try to enjoy those things,” she explained.

She went on to say that prior to her essay in Vogue this year, only one other person knew about her plans to retire.

“The only person that knew at one point about it was my therapist,” Serena shared. “Because verbalizing meant that it was real, and I don’t want it to be real so I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do and I don’t think you really know until, I don’t know, until you say it or it’s actually real.”

“I always thought at the end of it I would just leave quietly and not saying anything and make an announcement on social media,” she continued. “That’s how I always thought I would do it.”

“I’ve been playing tennis since I was littler in a stroller… that’s how long I’ve been around tennis,” Serena added. “But when it came out, I was actually relieved and I didn’t expect to feel that way. I felt pretty good. It’s like when you want to accomplish something and you don’t do it but then when you finally do it you’re like, ‘It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was.?’ I should have done it 10 years ago!”

See her full interview down below.

Serena was recently spotted at a star-studded NYFW event and you can see all the pics here.