Lewis Hamilton has responded to rumours linking his shut pal Serena Williams to a return to skilled tennis.
The 44-year-old was ranked because the world No. 1 in ladies’s singles by the Ladies’s Tennis Affiliation for 319 weeks, which is the third-most of all time. She has 73 WTA Tour-level singles titles to her title, together with 23 main ladies’s singles titles.
Williams retired in September 2022, however there have been rumblings of a possible return for the American.
“I would like to. I hold telling her to return again,” Hamilton defined when requested if he wish to see Williams return. “I am an enormous supporter of her. She’s the best of all time, such a legend. She was at one of many races only recently. She’s an expensive pal as properly, which I am actually honoured to have the ability to say.”
The rumours had been sparked by Williams’s re-entering the tennis anti-doping testing pool, which led many to consider she may return in 2026. Whereas the rumours have continued to unfold, Williams tried to squash the dialogue on social media. “Omg, y’all I’m NOT coming again. This wildfire is crazy-,” she posted.
Hamilton and Williams have been buddies for a while. The seven-time System 1 champion beforehand paid tribute to the tennis star, branding her the best of all time.
“Taking a second earlier than the race immediately to point out my appreciation and gratitude to the best of all time, Serena Williams,” he posted in September 2022 when she introduced her retirement.
“We’ll by no means see one other Serena. She’s one in all a form. She got here via like a wrecking ball and has been so spectacular to witness. She has such fierceness, energy, and power in each physique and thoughts. To be so daring, Black, courageous and, above all, a form and caring human being is gorgeous.
“I keep in mind watching her and Venus at their first video games with my dad on TV. Seeing such gifted ladies dominating a discipline the place nobody appeared like them gave me hope. They made me consider that superheroes are actual, and so they can look [like] me and my household. I by no means dreamed in 1,000,000 years I might meet these heroes and are available to name them my buddies. I knew that I wasn’t alone due to you. I knew I may by no means hand over since you didn’t. I can’t thanks two sufficient.
“Nonetheless immediately you remind me to by no means hand over, you remind me what we stand for and I wish to thanks from the underside of my coronary heart. You make me wish to be higher in all methods. A greater competitor, a greater brother, a greater pal, and a greater chief. You encourage me every single day and simply know you at all times have a brother in me. Serena, I’m wishing you all of the happiness in what’s subsequent for you. You actually deserve it.”
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