Serena Williams is stepping away from tennis after the upcoming US Open, although she’s not quite ready to put a firm date on it or say the word ‘retirement.’

‘I have never liked the word,’ Williams wrote in the latest issue of Vogue. ‘It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. ‘Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution,’ she continued. ‘I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me.’

Those ‘other things,’ she explained, are business and family.