Serena Williams tried to deposit her first $1 million in career earnings at a drive-thru ATM. The 42-year-old tennis icon – said to have a net worth of $300 million – is now retired from the game and is busy raising her daughters Olympia, six, and 11-month-old Adira, who she has with her 41-year-old husband Alexis Ohanian. She said she was never used to having huge amounts of cash in her account at the start of her career as she was simply playing “to win” and didn’t care about racking up earnings or properly handling her money.
She said during an appearance on the latest episode of ‘Hot Ones’ about getting her first $1 million pay cheque: “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’.” Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.
Serena added about her philosophy when it came to money: “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.
” Serena recently told People at th.