Serena Williams recalls the hilarious moment she tried to cash a $1MILLION check at a drive-through ATM in her early years as a tennis pro

Serena Williams has recalled nan infinitesimal she tried and grounded to rate a $1million cheque from 1 of her early tennis wins astatine a drive-through ATM.

Williams, considered by galore arsenic nan top female tennis subordinate of each time, first competed professionally astatine nan property of 14 and yet joined nan WTA Tour a fewer years later.

The eventual Hall of Famer went connected to triumph a staggering 23 awesome championships successful her career, nan astir successful the Open Era, while besides amassing a reported $95million successful prize money on nan way.

And erstwhile nan first of those millions came successful her early years arsenic a WTA pro, Williams admits she tried to deposit her winnings cheque astatine nan drive-through of a section slope - albeit unsuccessfully.

She said during an quality connected Hot Ones: 'I sewage my cheque and it was a cardinal dollars, and I was for illustration "ok, I’m gonna spell deposit it."

'I'd ne'er really spent a batch of money, I was truthful serious. I don't cognize what happened to me, I utilized to beryllium serious. 

'So I went to nan drive-through and nan feline was like, "Uh... I deliberation you request to travel wrong for this." And I was like, "oh ok!"'

Despite collecting winners' cheque aft winners' cheque passim her illustrious career, Williams insists she was ne'er motivated by money arsenic a player.

So overmuch so, successful fact, that she often forgot astir various prize costs she won connected nan court.

'I ne'er played for money, I played ’cause I loved nan sport,' nan tennis fable added. 'I don’t moreover cognize if I wanted to play to beryllium nan best, I wanted to win.

'So my taxation guy, he would beryllium like, "You didn’t get your money?" And I’d beryllium like, "Oh, I didn’t get that 1 successful Zurich. Oh, I forgot that 1 successful Moscow." 

'I was conscionable playing to win, and if I didn’t win, I wasn’t thinking. I was conscionable truthful angry, that I wanted to find a measurement to get amended and triumph nan adjacent time.'

Williams is nan only subordinate successful tennis history to execute a profession Golden Slam - winning each 4 fields successful nan aforesaid almanac twelvemonth - successful some azygous and doubles.

The 42-year-old is still understood to beryllium worthy an eye-watering $300m 2 years aft bringing nan curtain down connected her legendary career.