The careers of Tiger Woods and Serena Williams have a lot of parallels.
Both transcended their respective sports during a similar timeframe and arguably became the greatest to ever play. And now both are in the twilight of their competitive days. On Tuesday, Williams wrote in a first-person essay on Vogue.com that she is planning to "evolve" away from tennis after the U.S. Open, and that she leaned on Woods for advice about how to wind down her career.
"This spring, I had the itch to get back on the court for the first time in seven months," Williams wrote .