Serena Williams of the US returned against US singles final on the 13th day of the Australian Open Tennis Tournament in Melbourne on January 28, 2017.
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Serena Williams Record at the Berlin – 2017 Australian Open was a quite impressive sport when he won the 23rd Grand Slam singles title, defeating her sister Venus in the final. After a while one revealed: she was pregnant at the time.
“I don’t know how I did it.
This is quite a career – after winning his first Grand Slam at the US Open in 1999, Williams became the only player to achieve “Golden Slam” – won the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open and won the Olympic gold medal – Singles and Doubles Tennis.
“Then I don’t know what I was doing, I was nine weeks pregnant … I remember that I couldn’t run a long time,” said the Superretan Private Equity Conference in Berlin.
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Early symptoms of pregnancy are severe as the body undergoes a massive transformation, and the hormones are often caused by fatigue, breathing and nausea.
“I remember what I said. I need to do a lot of aces. I have to do a lot of winners,” Williams continued, referring to the point that scored directly from the serve. “I can only play four balls. And I finished.”
“I remember playing one time against a player, and I couldn’t breathe. And I don’t see how I don’t breathe now, so I don’t see how I can’t breathe now, so I deliberately missed to try the next step and get back to my energy. But I was like this: Why am I pregnant?
US Tennis legend Serena Williams (R) is leading a selfie photo with her daughter Olympia and her husband Alexis (C), on May 18, 2025, on May 18, 2025.
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Williams, who has two daughters with investor and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, withdrew from professional tennis in 2022 to focus on his family.
Sports stars like a cyclist Laura Kenny Has spoken in recent years about the challenges of balancing with the desire to get pregnant with an intense and physically demanded career, but a tennis player Naomi Osaka He criticized the public interpretation for sacrificing one to another.
‘You don’t have to stay in a lane’
Williams now runs Venture Capital Fund Serena Ventures with 40 portfolio companies.
The qualities of winning the winning audience as an investor for a single-mind-boggling audience for a packed audience packed by private equity professionals.
“I remember at one point. We were walking in court in Wimblede, and at that time my partner called me about the deal we are trying to close,” he recalled.
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He noted that they look for the founders who are obsessed with being better in the work they do and the lives of the people they want to affect.
His initial investment was in 2009 in the US football team Miami Dolphins, who was the world’s top -ranked female player.
“We have many bad articles on why we shouldn’t do this. We just need to focus on tennis, and we don’t have to think about this,” he said at the time of the media and sports world.
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