Coco Gauff was not stunned by Serena's retirement announcement and she saw it largely as a celebration of her career than anything sad.
Williams contributed far more to tennis than she or anyone else anticipated. Gauff saw the American's retirement at the US Open a few months ago as a celebration of her career. It was also something that was unavoidable.
I feel like it’s one of those announcements that was inevitable, and people were expecting her to retire for a long time. I wasn’t really shocked, but I was definitely not sad either. I think it was more of a celebration. I feel like she’s the type of person that you can’t really be sad [about] when she retires, because it wasn’t like a bad injury that ended her career.
Gauff lauded her as the greatest of all time despite not winning that one elusive one that she really wanted. Comparing her era to eras of the past makes no sense as the sport evolved a lot since then and her achievement is far greater than any before.
I know people talk about her winning one more but to me it doesn’t matter. I think she’s done everything that a tennis player could ever dream of. And she’s definitely going down as the greatest of all time.
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