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Serena Williams from the United States hit a return against Venus Williams from the United States during a single -day single -day women’s open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 28, 2017.
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Berlin was a rather impressive sports feat when Serena Williams received a record 23rd title at the Australian Open 2017 championship, winning Venus’s sister in the finals. Shortly after the opening: she was pregnant at the time.
“I don’t know how I did it, frankly,” Williams said at the event on Wednesday, choosing the moment as the most important of her tennis career.
It was a pretty career – after winning its first grand slam at the US Open in 1999, Williams became the only player who reached the Golden Slam – winning the open Australian Open Championship, French Open, Wimbledon and the United States, and receiving the Olympic Gold Medal.
“I don’t know what I was doing then, I was pregnant nine weeks … I remember I couldn’t run long,” Williams said at the Superreturn Private Equity conference in Berlin.
“I didn’t tell anyone. I mean, Venus knew, and I still feel very bad about it because the deep part feels like we played each other in the finals, I probably knew, and she probably felt some deep burden to go even further. But she was just one of two people.”
Symptoms of early pregnancy can be intense because the body undergoes a huge transformation, with the help of hormones that often lead to fatigue, breathing and nausea.
“I remember saying that I have to do a lot of ace, I have to do a lot of winners,” Williams continued, citing a point that was recruited directly from the submission. “I can only play, for example, four goals and I finished.”
“I remember once played a long point against one player and I couldn’t breathe. And I like it as I don’t see that I am not able to breathe now, and so I just lost the next moment to just try to return my energy. But then I liked: why did I play so far pregnancy?”
US Tennis Tennis legend Serena Williams (R) poses for selfies with her daughter Olympia and husband Alexis (c) ahead in the final football match of the Cup of England between Chelsea and Manchester United at the Wembler Stadium, in the northwest of London, May 18, 2025.
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Williams, whose two daughters with an investor and co -founder Reddit Alexis Okhanyan retreated from professional tennis in 2022 to focus on his family.
Sports stars such as cyclist Laura Kenny They talked in recent years about the problems of balance intensive and physically demanding career with the desire to get pregnant and the tennis player Naomi Osaka criticized a public comment that it is necessary to donate to others.
“You don’t just need to stay in the same lane”
Now Williams is managing the Venture Ventures Ventures, which has 40 portfolio companies.
She told the packed audience of private capital experts that the qualities that forced her overwhelmingly victory in sports translated into like -minded as an investor.
“I remember at one point, walking on the site in Wimbledon, and my partner at the time called me about the transaction we tried to close,” she reminded.
“I was on the platform that day, and it’s a really long walk. And I remember talking to her on the phone, and in the conversation she looks like … How is your day goes?
She noted that she was looking for the founders who are intrusive to what they do and changing the lives of the people they want to influence.
Its earliest investments were in the American football team of Miami Dolphins in 2009 when it was the highest rating in the world.
“We have so many bad articles about why we don’t have to do it. We just need to focus on tennis and we don’t need to think about it,” she said about the media and the sports world at the time.
“Now, as an athlete, we are in that if you are only in basketball, or if you only play football, if you only do tennis, what else do you do? So we gave people such a platform that it is normal. You can also be an entrepreneur.
