Serena Williams' career on par with Michael Jordan and Tom Brady, John McEnroe says

John McEnroe talked to Fox News Digital ahead of an LAFC soccer game in which he called the game with actor Will Ferrell.

Serena Williams stunned the sports world when she revealed she would be stepping away from tennis following the U.S. Open to focus on her family and her successful ventures off the court.

The 40-year-old will walk away from the sport with 23 Grand Slam titles – the most in the Open Era and second most all-time behind Margaret Court. She will get one more chance to tie the court’s record. She lost in the first round of Wimbledon earlier in the summer.

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Serena Williams after her National Bank Open match on Aug. 10, 2022, at Sobeys Stadium in Toronto, Canada. (Julian Avram/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

John McEnroe, who partnered with Mixhalo to team up with Will Ferrell to call LAFC’s match against Charlotte FC on Saturday night, told Fox News Digital that Williams was in the upper echelon of all-time great athletes in any sport.

"Serena’s the greatest female athlete, to me, in the history of sports. I don’t care who you could come up with. She’s one of the greatest athletes period – male or female. She’s put herself along the likes of Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, whoever you wanna say … She’s 40 years old. She’s done everything in tennis. She’s got nothing to prove," McEnroe said.

"It sounds like she wants to have more kids, awesome. She’s got a lot of other interests. People want to be a part of what she’s doing. She’ll be doing just fine. We were sort of expecting this to happen. She wanted to win a couple more, one or two more, break the all-time record, win a couple after having her daughter. That doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen but that, to