Serena Williams Stuns in New York Magazine. Talks Post-Tennis Career Plans.

Serena Williams New York Magazine Norman Jean Roy


Shot by Norman Jean Roy for New York Magazine, Serena Williams shows off her athleticism and style in a series of pieces by Wolford, Baja East, and Elizabeth and James. The indomitable athlete and entrepreneur talked her post-tennis career plans, which will likely be fashion-oriented.

Serena Williams travels with her teacup Yorkie, Chip, and dreamboat assistant, Grant, who went to Haverford and plays lacrosse. She is here hawking “Serena’s Signature Statement Collection,” because her career will one day end and she wants there to be something beyond nostalgia on the other side of it. Williams isn’t much for nostalgia. “I have lots of trophies, and I’m just — I’m not that person that needs to see all these trophies,” she says, under a blanket in the greenroom with Chip on her lap. “I have some in my house here, some in my house there, some I don’t know what happened to ’em. I have my grand-slam trophies … somewhere.”

A flippant past-tenseness has crept into her language. “We were so fast,” she says of herself and her sister Venus as children. “We are. We were. Gosh, is this over?” She laughs. There’s a weird anxiety in her stilted professional bio: Serena “continues to also pursue her other interests and has set herself up for a career after tennis.”


Serena Williams New York Magazine Norman Jean Roy

Serena Williams New York Magazine Norman Jean Roy

Serena Williams New York Magazine Norman Jean Roy


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