Serena Williams Tells Top Newspaper “You Can Do Better” After Wrong Photo | Tennis News

Tennis nice Serena Williams on Wednesday took to Twitter to name out The New York Instances after the newspaper erroneously used a photograph of her sister Venus in a report on her enterprise capital agency. “Irrespective of how far we come, we get reminded that it isn’t sufficient. That is why I raised $111M for @serenaventures. To assist the founders who’re neglected by engrained methods woefully unaware of their biases. As a result of even I’m neglected. You are able to do higher, @nytimes,” tweeted Serena alongside an image of the report on her enterprise capital agency that featured a photograph of Venus.

Irrespective of how far we come, we get reminded that it isn’t sufficient. That is why I raised $111M for @serenaventures. To assist the founders who’re neglected by engrained methods woefully unaware of their biases. As a result of even I’m neglected. You are able to do higher, @nytimes. pic.twitter.com/hvfCl5WUoz

— Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) March 2, 2022

Serena, 40, not too long ago launched an early-stage enterprise capital agency named Serena Ventures and raised an inaugural fund of $111 million, reported The New York Instances.

Nevertheless, the newspaper’s mistaken use of Venus’ image, as an alternative of Serena’s, grew to become a reason for controversy as social media customers identified the error earlier than the tennis star herself dived into the difficulty.

In the meantime, 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena not too long ago dropped out of the highest 50 of the world rankings for the primary time since 2006.

The American tennis legend hasn’t returned to aggressive motion since her first spherical loss at Wimbledon this 12 months and performed simply six tournaments all through 2021.

She had opted out of the Australian Open earlier this 12 months saying she wasn’t able to play because of health points.

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“Whereas that is by no means a straightforward resolution to make, I’m not the place I must be bodily to compete,” Serena stated in an announcement on the time.

“Melbourne is one in every of my favourite cities to go to and I sit up for taking part in on the AO yearly. I’ll miss seeing the followers, however am excited to return and compete at my highest degree,” she had added.