Former Serena Williams Coach Rick Macci Isn’t Surprised About Her Retirement

Former coach Rick Macci has revealed he wasn’t surprised by Serena Williams‘ decides to retire, as he insisted the star ‘will go out with a bang’ at the US Open

The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion has ended her career and announced her decision next month. Fashion.

Adoring tennis fans took to social media to claim they were emotional after the announcement Tuesday, honoring the 40-year-old and describing her as the ‘Greatest Of All Time’.

But Macci, who coached Williams and her sister Venus at the start of their careers, claimed he wasn’t shocked by the news.

“I’m not surprised,” Macci . said TMZ. “Listen, she’s doing this on her terms. She has many things going on.

“I’m just happy for her because she’s making the decision and she’s doing it on her terms.

“It’s not an injury, she won’t last too long or anything like that, but what I really like is it ends at the US Open. There she won her first Grand Slam and people in New York love it.

“I think it’s going to be a must-see TV and knowing Serena she goes out with a bang.”

Macci sent a special message to Williams when he said, “You’re doing it on your terms. Above all, you’re happy and that’s the most important thing.’

“You’ve influenced the lives of so many people, you have no idea. Not just people playing tennis and for me, I think your biggest act is yet to come.”

The US Open is expected to be Williams’ last tournament before she resigns from tennis, and her shocking announcement sparked unprecedented ticket demand earlier this week.

However, the reality of her retirement seems to have already hit her as she struggled to contain her emotions in Toronto after her Canadian Open defeat to Belinda Bencic.

A day after announcing her plan to retire, Serena Williams was defeated in straight sets by her Swiss opponent in the second round as one of the final pages of her remarkable career drew to a close.

Bencic lost just six games in a 6-2 6-4 win where Williams showed flashes of her best, but no more. Her opponent remained calm, refusing to be alarmed by the seriousness of the match, and advanced to the third round.

Williams then spoke on court and thanked her fans in Canada for their support during her playing time, but found it hard to hold back the tears.

“Thank you,” she said in a cracking voice. “It was a lot of emotion, I like to play here and always pay here.

“I wish I could have played better, but Belinda played so well today. It’s been 24 interesting hours.’

Williams told Vogue she didn’t like the word “retirement” and instead said she “evolved away from tennis, into other things that are important to me,” such as family and business.

Not only does Williams want to spend more time with her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and their five-year-old Olympia, but the 23-time Grand Slam winner is hoping for another child.

“For the past year, Alexis and I have been trying to have another child, and recently we received information from my doctor who reassured me and made me feel that when we are ready, we can expand our family,” Willems wrote. . ‘As an athlete I absolutely do not want to be pregnant again. I have to be two feet in tennis or two feet out.’

And then there’s Williams’ lavish business interests, including her own venture capital firm, Serena Ventures, which raised a reported $111 million initial fund last March. Additionally, she and sister Venus are both minority shareholders of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, co-own a National Women’s Soccer League Team, and have her own sustainable clothing line, S by Serena.

She was also one of the executive producers of King Richard, the award-winning film starring Will Smith as her father, but would not agree to the project until she saw the finished product in 2021.

Plus, she has her seemingly endless list of endorsement deals: Aston Martin, IBM, Pepsi, Delta Air Lines, Gatorade, and Chase Bank to name a few.