Serena Williams had a valuable lesson in banking early in her professional life. During her appearance on the most recent edition of Hot Ones, the 42-year-old tennis legend talked about her experience trying to use a drive-thru ATM to deposit her first $1 million in tennis winnings.
“I never played for money,” . “I played ’cause I loved the sport … I don’t even know if I wanted to play to be the best, I wanted to win.” “So my tax guy, he would be like, ‘You didn’t get your money?’ and I’d be like, ‘Oh, I didn’t get that one in Zurich,’ ‘Oh, I forget that one in Moscow,’ … I was just playing to win, and if I didn’t win, I wasn’t thinking. I was just so angry, that I wanted to find a way to get better and win the next time,” .
“I never really spent a lot of money,”, “I went through the drive-thru … and the guy was like, ‘Uh, I think you need to come inside for this,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, OK.’ “
Williams resigned from tennis in September 2022. She and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, have two children, Adira, who is 10 months old, and Olympia, who is 6½.
The athlete talked candidly about her experiences as a mother and how being a mother allows her to indulge her competitive spirit. She said,
“You don’t and I can’t. I have to be the best mom,”. “I have to go to all of Olympia’s things at her school. I literally show up.” “I invest in women. I invest in people of color and that is very competitive.”
