‘I Never Want To Do This Again’- 27YO WTA Star, Who Recently Announced Retirement, Reveals the Pain of Being a Villain During Serena Williams’ Last Dance at US Open 2022

It’s always challenging to manage when Serena Williams is your opponent. As people remark, she’s just different, the crowd goes crazy, and everything seems to be pulling against you. Everything appears to be more difficult at that time than usual. In a similar vein, Anett Kontaveit once experienced the same feeling of standing against the 23-time Grand Slam champion on the tennis court last year at the US Open.

Last year, when she was ranked second in the world, she was defeated by Williams. The American tennis legend returned to the tennis court after a hiatus and was playing her retirement tournament. Within a year of that setback, the 27-year-old tennis player is ready to retire from the sport at Wimbledon. Well, that setback didn’t sit well with Kontaveit, as in the recent Netflix tennis docuseries, she dwelled her thoughts on losing to the American tennis icon from the inside.

Anett Kontaveit on facing defeat against tennis legend Serena Williams

Last year, the Estonian tennis player got an amazing opportunity to face the 41-year-old tennis legend on the court. While playing against Williams is something that every player wants to do right, for some tennis fans, Williams’ victory was a memorable moment. But for the 27-year-old tennis player, her experience was extremely different. And most recently, the second installment of the Netflix tennis documentary BreakPoint gave tennis fans some insight into what Serena Williams’ final matches looked like.

Well, in that, her second-round opponent, the former World No. 2 discussed how she felt after losing to the tennis great in that conversation, lamenting how things didn’t go her way. After walking off the court after losing the match, she got emotional. And shared the pain of becoming Villian during Williams’ last dance. She said, “The whole match was emotionally one of the hardest things, that I’ve gone through on court. It’s not about me losing to Serena. It was just super overwhelming, like… I never want to do this again.”

The second part of Break Point revolves around the last year’s US Open and other tournaments of the second half of the 2022 tennis season. In that series, Williams’ victory is also displayed in a very beautiful manner. But at the same time, it also revealed the Estonian tennis player’s emotional rollercoaster.

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While she was dejected regarding how the match went through against her. Facing defeat against the 23-time Grand Slam champion, she is ready to call off her tennis career for something that she never expected. Not only that, but after the upsetting second-round defeat, she also shared an Instagram post regarding how her life changed in a matter of moments.

After facing defeat, Kontaveit narrows down what her life looks like

Just a year after facing the American tennis legend in her retirement tournament. The 27-year-old tennis star will compete in her final match at Wimbledon before calling it quits. The former world number one wrote an Instagram post at the time about how her life quickly turned upside down upon losing to Williams.

She shared a series of pictures, explaining how things changed from having a comfortable coffee with her mother to the next day, she went on to play tennis against the former world number one, in front of the Spider-Man actress, Zendaya. However, the Estonian doesn’t have any regrets about not being able to claim a victory against Williams.

Kontaveit has never won a Grand Slam tournament, but her injury and her fate forced her to retire at such a young age.

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