‘I’m Trying to Grow Up’ – 41-Year-Old Serena Williams Discloses How She Still Tries Hard to Not Be a Copycat of Her Elder Sister Venus
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American tennis great Serena Williams has had a fantastic career. With the hunger for success and determination in her eyes, anyone can say that she loves the sport. However, by now, almost everyone knows that her father Richard Williams pushed Serena and Venus into tennis.
However, with time, the Williams sisters started enjoying the sport. Apart from her love for the game, Serena had multiple reasons to love her job. The 41-year-old recently spoke about it at the Wilson Tennis Family Dinner.
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Why Serena loved her job as a tennis player
At Wilson Tennis Family Dinner, Serena Williams joined fellow American tennis legend Billie Jean King and a few other future stars. It was a lovely set up to have a friendly dinner chat about tennis. Here, Serena revealed the reason she started playing tennis. Further, the 41-year-old revealed why she loved it as a job.
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“I play tennis because my dad put me in it and then Venus played and I literally do everything that Venus does or I used to do,” she said.
Serena further added, “I’m trying to grow up. Then I have got pretty good at it and I love to win, yeah, so I just kept going. And it’s fun, think I had fun. And it’s a really cool job. You get to travel the world and beyond and be on big stages and it’s like you are performing and I can’t sing, so it was like the next best thing.”
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It was lovely to see the seniors imparting their knowledge and experience to the younger generation. While Serena could have hated tennis when her father introduced her, she chose to make herself the best and ended up loving it.
Serena Williams’ portrait induced in the National Portrait Gallery
Serena Williams added another honor to the long list of her achievements. The 41-year-old was among the seven inductees into the National Portrait Gallery. Speaking about her portrait, Serena was glad to see that her portrait representation shows her happiness.
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While we can see Serena with a beaming smile in the portrait, it was in stark contrast with the intense and tough image Serena had on the court.
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The former world number one expressed her happiness about it saying that the portrait will help break the stereotype.
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