Serena Williams mentioned she wouldn’t go to the Tokyo Olympics however didn’t need to clarify why throughout her pre-Wimbledon video convention with reporters on Sunday.
“I’m not really on the Olympic list. … It’s not that I know. If so, I shouldn’t be on that,” Williams mentioned.
Williams, 39, has received 4 gold medals on the final Summer Games for the United States: in each singles and doubles on the 2012 London Olympics – during which tennis competitors was held on the All England Club – and the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and 2008 in doubles. Beijing Olympics.
All her doubles golds had been received together with her older sister Venus as her companion.
At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, Serena Williams misplaced to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine within the third spherical of singles and the siblings misplaced within the first spherical of doubles. Before that, they had been 15–0 as an Olympic doubles workforce.
“There are a number of reasons why I made my Olympic decision,” Williams mentioned on Sunday, a day earlier than the beginning of main-draw motion at Wimbledon, the place she’s going to search her twenty fourth Grand Slam singles title. “I really don’t want to… I don’t feel like going to them today. Maybe another day. Sorry.”
Asked what it might be like to take a seat out of the Summer Games, Williams replied: “I haven’t thought about it. In the past, it has been a wonderful place for me. I haven’t really thought about it, so I won’t keep thinking about it.”
Other prime tennis gamers equivalent to Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem have additionally mentioned they are going to skip touring to Japan, the place the Olympics open on July 23, a yr after being postponed as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
Roger Federer mentioned on Saturday that he has not determined whether or not to attend the Tokyo Games and can discover out solely after seeing how issues go at Wimbledon.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
