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Will Serena's new record (prize money) inspire her more?
http://msn.foxsports.com/tennis/story/9152078/Sere...
Congrats to Serena. I hope she continues success and do as Mary Carillo said the other day, which is continue to play and win more titles.
Serena sets record for female athlete prize money
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - All those winner's checks for Serena Williams add up: By reaching two finals at the Australian Open, she broke golf star Annika Sorenstam's record for career prize money by a female athlete with nearly $23 million.
Williams was busy Thursday, first beating Elena Dementieva of Russia 6-3, 6-4 in the singles semifinals, then pairing with older sister Venus for a victory in the doubles semifinals.
Even if the American were to lose both title matches, she would leave Australia with career earnings of about $22.7 million, according to the WTA Tour, eclipsing Lindsay Davenport's women's tennis prize record by more than $500,000, and Sorenstam's total by more than $150,000.
If Williams wins two Australian Open championships this week, she'll push her haul above $23.5 million.
When told of the news, the 27-year-old Williams recalled her first check of $240 in prize money from an event in Canada in 1995.
"It's amazing how much women's tennis has grown since I joined the tour 14 years ago," she said. "I am very proud to have reached this milestone for me, my family and all women athletes out there."
Williams will play Dinara Safina of Russia in the Australian Open singles final Saturday, bidding for a 10th Grand Slam singles championship, most among active players. She and her sister will be seeking their eighth Grand Slam women's doubles title when they face Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia and Ai Sugiyama of Japan in that final.
Overall, the younger Williams has won 32 singles titles and 14 doubles titles.
Inspire her as in, play more matches, grand slams. I'm not necessarily talking about the money. I do not believe she's greedy, if she was, she would've played in more matches than she has.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I doubt prize money is the major motivator for her. She is probably more concerned with winning grand slam's and getting in history books.
I'm sure like everybody else she loves the money. But the bulk of her income will be outside the prize money which is also related to her performance.
I personally think all these huge prize money are well deserved for sports people but those wall street....
- martinezortizLv 44 years ago
of direction the stadium became finished for the time of the Federer/Nadal very final, that could be a great contention contained in the mildew of Borg/McEnroe. Wasn't that lengthy in the past that adult adult males's tennis became a scores wilderness... Like numerous the 1990's and early 2000's. Ever on account that united statesa. ran out of magnificent adult adult males's contenders contained in the previous due eighty's. Who afflicted to observe Federer beat adult adult males like Nalbandian and Phillippoussis? Roddick in no way developed right into a excessive hazard. Sampras had the comparable difficulty, no actual rival for many of his run. Agassi's rejuvenation in direction of the tip of his profession became a freaking godsend. For awhile the ladies have been going reliable and hardly absolutely everyone cared approximately adult adult males's tennis, till Nadal got here alongside. I agree that superb-of-5 set fits ought to pay extra valuable than superb-of-3. regardless of the undeniable fact that all of it comes all the way down to the place sponsors placed their funds.
- 1 decade ago
No. It will not inspire her more. She loves tennis and she loves performing. She has probably made more in endorsements with HP and Nike and whoever else. Serena likes winning and will dig deeper in her spiritual self to achieve it. I too hope she will play well into her 30s.
- 1 decade ago
since she's so greedy, i think itl motivate her
(don't get me wrong she's a great player)
*EDIT*
kay, maybe shes not that greedy, but shes eager to earn more money and more slams.....i cant beleive in saying this, but serena actually deserves to be #1
shes just too good for others to beat her at the moment
