Serena Williams Shares She Never Liked Sports, “I mean I don’t love tennis today, but…”

You read it right folks; Serena Williams isn’t as passionate about tennis as we all thought she was.  The 30-year-old multi-title tennis champ has revealed to USA Today that she would rather shop and sit down than work out and compete. On a more positive note, Williams isn’t making out half bad, earning nearly $35 million in prize money from her performance in tournaments alone. That number doesn’t include earned income from endorsement deals or acting.

At a tournament in Brisbane, Australia Williams shared,

“I mean I don’t love tennis today, but I’m here, and I can’t live without it, so I’m still here and I don’t want to go anywhere any time soon.”

Williams added,

“It’s not that I’ve fallen out of love — I’ve actually never liked sports, and I never understood how I became an athlete. I don’t like working out, I don’t like anything that has to do with working physically. If It involves sitting down or shopping, I’m excellent at it.”

Don’t expect to see as much of Serena on the court in 2012 as we have in the past. She explained that she’d rather focus on her other business adventures such as her growing clothing line, her acting career, writing and producing.

“I just want to be able to do other things I am doing and expand on that – I think that will help keep my motivation up, I have always been preparing myself for life after tennis.”

So could this be the end of tennis for Serena? We sure hope not! And if this is in fact the beginning of the end, it might through a wrench in Venus Williams‘ goal of taking home an Olympic medal for playing doubles with her sister.

[USA Today,Essence]

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