Cashing a examine can nonetheless be a ache, however drive-thru ATMs and banking apps have made the method far more seamless.
However for those who’re the tennis legend Serena Williams—your paychecks could be a bit greater than the ATM can deal with.
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The 23-time Grand Slam singles winner appeared on an episode of “Scorching Ones” final week and talked about how her funds took a backseat to her love for the sport. Evans requested Williams if a rumored story — that she as soon as tried to money a million-dollar examine at an ATM however was denied on the drive-thru — was true. Williams stated it was.
“I by no means performed for cash. I performed as a result of I liked the game, I wished to be the perfect, I wished to win,” Williams stated. “I bought my examine and it was $1 million and I used to be like ‘Okay, I’ll go deposit it’, I by no means actually spent some huge cash … I simply went by way of the drive-thru and the man was like, ‘Uh, I believe you’ll want to come inside for this.'”
The tennis professional additionally stated that, early in her profession, she would typically neglect to select up and money checks.
″[He] can be like, ‘You did not get your cash?’ And I am like, ‘Oh, I did not get that one in Zurich. I forgot that one in Moscow,'” Williams instructed Evans. “I used to be enjoying to win, and if I did not win, I wasn’t considering. I used to be simply so offended that I wished to simply determine a strategy to get higher and win the subsequent time.”
The dedication to the sport clearly paid off.
In her 27-year-long profession, Williams, now 42, gained 73 profession singles titles and 23 profession doubles titles and earned an estimated $94.8 million in prize cash.
By 2022, it was estimated that Williams had earned a whole bunch of tens of millions in sponsorships all through her profession with corporations together with Nike and Kraft Meals.
Williams additionally not too long ago launched an lively magnificence model referred to as Wyn Magnificence, which was six years within the making.
Per Forbes, Williams’ internet value is an estimated $340 million.
