THE GRACEFUL EXIT OF A GIANT
The best Christmas gift that Lindsay Davenport must have received this year is her baby which is due in early summer. By the time she gives birth she will be 31 years old, a waning age for an athlete, sad to say. As the saying goes, hope for the best but expect the worst. If she ever decides to come back, although she earlier said that she “can’t imagine playing again,? she has to need a magic wand to play at a one hundred percent level to withstand the merciless tour.
Lindsay’s retirement has always been in between the lines of her interviews for some time now. I remember during this year’s U.S. Open where Andre Agassi’s farewell act was its marketing magnet, Lindsay was coy about a possible similar sendoff in case she decides to take the big “R?. After all, we are talking about one of the pillars of American women’s tennis.
Always under the radar, Lindsay was never known to lay her cards on the table (No definitions needed. Let others dig it themselves, God help them.) One can never picture her with an entourage fencing her from us mortals. She has always been the picture of grace, class, and earthiness. Now, a family with husband Jon Leach (they look kind of similar, don’t they?) is in the offing.
Having swung a tennis racket forever (she has one of the best ground strokes in the circuit), one can only imagine her excitement to embark on a new page in her young life. Yes, she is still young to have a long life ahead of her.
Not everyone can start life anew. As a wise saying goes, when a door shuts, a window is wide open.
We will miss Lindsay but we do wish her the best.
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