Venus Williams launches her book ‘Come To Win’
The world of professional tennis is incomplete without the Williams sisters. They have been ruling female tennis for quite some time now. Both of these exceptional players have managed to accomplish much more in their careers in addition to tennis. These multi-tasking professionals are always on the move and are trying new things. They have an eye for fashion and have also pursued their interests in this field by modelling and designing.
Venus Williams is the older of the two. She is an incredible professional tennis player and has reached the top in the world of female tennis at numerous occasions. She has a total of twenty-one Grand Slam titles, including both singles and doubles, and was the first African American professional to have made it to the top in tennis rankings in February 2002. Venus has also been the winner of three Olympic Gold medals in tennis which is the most number of gold medals any athlete has received for tennis.
Having become a professional tennis player at the age of fourteen, Venus has come a long way from where she began. She continues to shine at the top in her career as a tennis player and is currently ranked number three in the world. In addition to her tennis education, this tennis star is a graduate from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, with a degree in fashion design after which she came into a partnership with national retail chain Steve & Barry’s to launch her very own athletic and casual clothing line.
Tennis is what makes Venus renowned throughout the world but we can see that this diva is not limited to one talent alone. One of the latest achievements of this Grand Slam winner is the launch of her very own book. Very few would have expected this out of her but Venus has proved to the world that she is full of surprises.
With the launch of her book, ‘Come to Win’, Venus Williams has climbed even higher as a celebrity. In her book, she talks about the importance of investing time in a career beside tennis and how necessary it is to develop your entrepreneurial skills. She is herself a very successful entrepreneur and this book is an example of her success in fields other than that of tennis. For her book, she has collaborated with a group of well respected business leaders, politicians and acclaimed artists to show how to take a competitive soul with an athletic background and help them attain success off the court in something other than sports.
This tennis star has combined her talent and hard work and along with her passion to succeed, she has mastered the game of tennis. She realises that she will not be able to play tennis her whole life because for every professional athlete, the age factor comes in the way. Hence, she wants to know how she can develop a career further off court in her post-tennis career. For an inspiration of some sort, she has turned to fifty business leaders, politicians, doctors and artists, who have played competitive sports at some point in their life and are now at the top of their professions. She has included whatever they have to say in her book.
The most important points which Venus has made in her book are that of a person’s athletic career and how that can help them further in their life and business when they decide to retire from a professional sport. The advice which has been concocted up in “Come to Win” includes how to visualise a course of action, how to learn from the mistakes one makes¸ who is best suited to play what position in the work place and being prepared for everything in advance. This book is full of wisdom, from which many can benefit – ranging from big business dealers in their careers to parents trying to discipline their children as professional athletes.
Some of the important people she has consulted while writing her book involve eBay’s former CEO Meg Whitman, Nike’s co-founder Philip Knight, stateswoman Condoleezza Rice and the entrepreneur and former NBA player Earvin Johnson. All of these personalities have an athletic background, and have helped Venus in gathering inspirational advice for the book.
“Come to Win” a must read for everyone out there. So, if you haven’t got your copy yet it is time to go out and get it.
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