The long-time tennis world number one Serena Williams does not want to compete in the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
The 39-year-old American announced on the Sunday before the start of the Grand Slam tournament in Wimbledon.
“I'm not on the list, I don't know about it, anyway.
And I shouldn't be on it, ”said Serena Williams.
The winner of 23 Grand Slam titles in singles had left it open in the past few weeks whether she would travel to the summer games starting on July 23. Why she has now decided to decline remains open. “There are a lot of reasons I don't want to go into more detail today. Maybe another time, ”said Serena Williams, who won 2012 Olympic gold in singles and three more doubles with her sister Venus. A few weeks ago, when asked by an Olympic star, she said that she had not yet spent 24 hours without her three-year-old daughter.
The former world number one and two-time Olympic champion Rafael Nadal from Spain recently canceled for the Olympics, the Swiss Roger Federer left his participation open on Saturday in London. The world number one Novak Djokovic, on the other hand, has so far been aiming for a start in Tokyo.