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“Within that week, you know, I took a few days off. I I flew to Portland. I resigned my Nike deal. My dad told me to get in the room. And there may be things you don't know. There are certain, you know, elements of the deal that you're not gonna be familiar with. But you know what? This is your future. This is your money, and you need to be in that room.”

“I'd I'd say that that match point feeling is it's hard to replicate, very hard to replicate. Because it's in the moment in front of thousands of people. There's just there's nothing quite like it, which is the beauty of sports, right, of seeing seeing the sweat and the tears, the emotions, the the the pressures. That's why it's so special. There's nothing that could replicate it.”

“I just wanna be better than the person that's in front of me. Right? I don't need my best. Enough to get through. You don't have to be at your best for that match. You don't have to be. And that's hard that's hard to accept. Because we always want the best from us. And in some ways, you don't wanna be because you don't wanna expend resources on something that doesn't shouldn't require those resources.”

“The next day, I mean, you're focused on winning the next one, which is the US Open. There's only a certain amount of time that you're really allowed to think about your success, which in some ways is sad. But while you're holding the trophy, all the other opponents are are training. You know, the world doesn't end to watch this this big moment in your life. And although you have to appreciate it and take it in, you can't believe the hype.”

“And it's also, I mean, amazing lessons because the more the more the the more chances you get to say no, the better opportunities come about. But I I don't think I realized it. I mean, I, you know, I I moved to The States as a young girl. I don't think I really acknowledged, what like, the full picture, the three sixty approach to being an athlete.”

“I had SugarPuva for over ten years while I was playing, and got it profitable after several years. It was an MBA on the job, ultimately. I mean, I going into it, I didn't know what a p and l was. I didn't know, you know, what a a strategic marketing plan was. Do you sell at a savings store, or do you sell premium? Are you scaling a product that costs $5? How are you doing it by maintaining its quality, that was incredibly valuable and something that I now get to think about as I as I invest in companies.”

“The composure that you show on a call, in a meeting, the way that I I think of business is, like, composure is everything. People people see how you feel, how you, you know, how you react, use your words wisely. You know, no matter who you meet in life, there there may be a time, most likely, they will come back in your life. Happens in sport all the time. It happens in business even more frequently.”

“And, like, with Serena, do she's a she's a business person also. Do you do you have a rivalry with her in business like you do in tennis? I mean, I know, you you know, your relationship has softened and she surprised you with the tennis hall of fame induction last summer. But, like, do you push each other on business impact too? No. We we actually there's there's a lot of deal flow amongst us now, which is a lot of fun. Because we get to see, we get to see a lot of the same or similar, business opportunities, and we occasionally run it by one another.”