Don’t mess with SuperRena.
It’s been apparent for some time that Serena Williams is superhuman, but she went full-blown superhero this week when she successfully chased down a man who stole her phone.
It seems the whole being “the world’s best female tennis player” thing might just be an elaborate ploy to hide her true identity as SuperRena.
Williams was enjoying a quiet meal with a friend on Tuesday, when a man approached her table and sent her “superhero sense” into overdrive.
“My phone was sitting in the chair but I just didn’t feel right,” she wrote in a Facebook post, which has now clocked an impressive 79,000 likes.
“He was there too long. ‘Is he a customer?’ I thought, ‘Is he waiting on the bathroom?’ Nonetheless I tried to shake his this eerie feeling.”
When the thief grabbed her phone and ran off, Williams leapt up in pursuit, and weaved her way out of the restaurant (jumping over a chair or two in the process). “I was upon him in a flash!” she writes. “In the most menacing yet calm no nonsense voice I could muster I kindly asked him if he “accidentally” took the wrong phone.” The man admitted that he may have: “Gosh you know what I did! It was so confusing in there. I must have grabbed the wrong phone.” Basically, it’s a valuable lesson in never trying to outrun a professional sports person and knowing your limitations as a petty criminal (just stick with stealing from the self-service check-out like everyone else, duh*). It’s also clearly unwise to mess with a bad ass Street Fighter enthusiast like Serena Williams.
