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SERENA Williams, world number one tennis player, is known for exploits on tennis courts. That’s apparently what makes her number one anyway. The other side of the tennis superstar manifested in the week when she played superhero by thwarting an attempt by a man to make away with her handset at restaurant.
Williams narrated the encounter on Facebook post on Wednesday, November 4, on how she chased down a man who she said grabbed her mobile phone at a restaurant.
Williams said while eating Chinese food, she spotted a guy standing next to her and with her phone sitting in the chair near her began to feel uncomfortable.
“He was there too long,” she wrote. “Is he a customer? I thought ‘Is he waiting on the bathroom?’ Nonetheless I tried to shake this eerie feeling. However, I kept watching him from the corner of my eye.”
Williams then alleged the man grabbed her phone and made a hasty exit, but he didn’t count on being chased out by the 34-year-old tennis star.
Shouting “Omg that dude took my phone!” Williams said she leapt up to chase the man.
“He began to run but I was too fast,” she wrote. “I was upon him in a flash!
“In the most menacing yet calm no nonsense voice I could muster I kindly asked him if he ‘accidentally’ took the wrong phone.
“He stumbled on his words probably not expecting this to happen. Eventually he said: ‘Gosh you know what I did! It was so confusing in there. I must have grabbed the wrong phone.'”
After recovering her phone, Williams said she was met with a standing ovation upon her return to the restaurant.
“I was proud. I just showed every man in there I can stand up to bullies and other men — it was a win for the ladies!” she added.
“Just because you are a lady don’t be afraid to step up to any challenge and not be a victim but a hero!”
Williams, who turned 34 in September, won 53 of hr 56 matches this season, securing five titles and over $10 million in prize money.
She has not played since a shock defeat at the U.S. Open deprived her of a calendar grand slam.
Williams, who won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 2015, is currently recovering from injury.
— Nov 16, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
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