Every time I have turned on a tennis tournament in the past 20 years, I’ve immediately looked for the name of Serena Williams or Roger Federer. Often, I searched for both.
As we all know, no longer will anyone do that. And strangely, for me and for so many others, their retirements have made far more of an impact than should reasonably be the case.
It’s the same with other sporting retirements; they hit a nerve that you never expected them to.
