US Open: Serena Williams loses in third round in what could be her last match

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The 23-time Grand Slam champion, who is expected to retire, falls to Aila Tamlijanovic 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1.

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Let Serena Williams not have any desire to go unobtrusively, not

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need this match, this outing to the US Open, this unprecedented profession of hers to truly, really end.

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Until what was, notwithstanding a shift in perspective, the last

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minutes of her 25 years of greatness on the tennis court and an

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unstoppable hesitance to say the unimaginable,Williams was trying

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to make one last classic comeback, earn one last vintage victory,