Serena Williams has not been idle since her retirement last year from professional tennis. In fact, she has filled her schedule with more ventures she wants to pursue off-court. With her organization, Serena Ventures, increasing in net worth by the day, Williams finds herself steeped in more work. Recently, she shared a picture of her workspace on her Instagram, which featured a special guest.
Serena Williams is one player who has shown her love for dogs many times. A proud dog mother, Williams has had three dogs to date. She shared her love for tennis with them, so Williams named all her dogs after tennis icons. Let’s find out who this special guest is.
Serena Williams desk picture features Rafael Nadal
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Williams is tackling her off-court ventures with the same tenacity she showed as a player. Williams began Serena Ventures, a venture capital firm, in 2014. She began the firm with the aim of improving the status of women and persons of color in the venture capital field. Due to her work, Williams has taken her net worth to $250 million dollars.
Hard at work even after retiring, the WTA legend shared a picture of her workspace on her Instagram story. Along with featuring a neatly organized desk with a laptop and a monitor, her picture also had her dog, Christopher Chip ‘Rafael Nadal’, who was resting next to the laptop. She also added a caption to the picture, “My desk this morning 😍.”
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Chip is Williams’ dog who has his own Instagram account. The Yorkshire Terrier is her third dog and occupies a large space on the social media platform,
All about Williams’ dogs
Serena Williams’ has invited three dogs into her family to date. Her first dog, Jackie Pete, named after Pete Sampras, was a Jack Russell Terrier who passed away in 2015. The next puppy she brought home was in 2004. She named the Shih Tzu ‘Laurelei’. The white-coated dog lived with her for a long time. She passed away in 2022.
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Currently, Christopher Chip ‘Rafael Nadal’, named after her close friend, the King of Clay, is her only dog. Chip amasses a large following on Instagram and can be seen on her Instagram page often. While Williams is a proud mother to Olympia, all these years she has also been a proud mother of her dogs.