Serena Williams : On tennis, love and motherhood

                               

TED 2017

Serena Williams : On tennis, love and motherhood (transcript)

Summary

September 1, this year 2017, Serena Williams gave birth to a girl and this week, she shared a picture with her baby on Instagram at the first time.

“Congratulations!”

This was the funny conversation with Serena Williams who is a tennis superstar and Gayle King who is a journalist though that time was when after Serena announced that she gave up playing tennis this year because of her pregnancy. However, she swears to definitely come back.

Serena is said to be a tennis legend player who brought power into female tennis field.

She has won four Olympic gold medals, and she has been world No.1 by a female tennis player about 6 years.  

She said that she's felt like winning for her is super addictive.

So winning will make her win again and again. She hates to lose, but losing has also brought her this position.

I think that tennis is a severe sport. Why can you watch the program until the other lose? I always run away from TV when someone will lose.

Then her big sister is also a famous tennis player. Her name is Venues. Serena was beaten by Venues many times but now, Serena won Venues. They grew up practicing together and they will think that they are their toughest opponent of each other. They are mortal enemies on the tennis court, but the second they shake hands they become best friends. They have incredible respect and love each other.

For a while, we can't watch them playing together and we know that age for athletes is important. However, no one doubts that Serena is coming back.

In addition, her husband spoke on TED stage in the past. I was very surprised by that.

Words in this story

endure / suffer (something painful or difficult) patiently.

pregnancy /noun/ pregnant /adj/

comfortably /adv/ comfortable / adj/ /noun/