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Serena to keep on playing
- Updated: September 27, 2016
Serena Williams insists she remains as committed to playing tennis as ever despite her disappointing form in recent months.
Serena, the highest earning female athlete in the world with annual earnings of £6.7m, achieved a huge milestone this year by winning her 22nd Grand Slam at Wimbledon to equal the Open-era record held by Steffi Graf.
However, the American has had her disappointments since then with unsuccessful Olympic and US Open campaigns hampered by a shoulder injury.
The world No 2 suffered a frustrating exit at the Rio Olympics in the third round to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina and was knocked out of the US Open in the semi-finals by Karolina Pliskova.
But, speaking to Sky Sports News HQ at the opening of her coach Patrick Mouratoglou’s new academy in Nice, the 35-year-old world No 2 says she has no plans to retire just yet.
“If I’m losing I’m going to figure out a way to win, so I can’t sit here and say that would be it,” said Williams
“Health issues can be tough. I have been dealing with a lot of health issues since Wimbledon and that has been really frustrating. I told [sister] Venus that it ruined my Olympics.
“I was just really sad because I worked …
