Serena Williams is on top of the tennis world, but the 21-year-old champion has a surprising view on how she would like her resume to read.
"I'm an actress, I'm a model and an athlete. I put athlete third on my list," said Williams. The world No. 1 women's tennis player and current holder of all four Grand Slam titles.
"I prefer actress, model, athlete."
Williams is keeping an ultra-fast pace off the courts as well as on them these days, with acting projects, modelling shoots and fashion design business competing for room on her calendar.
Taking a brief break after beating former Wimbledon champion Conchita Martinez last week at the Family Circle Cup tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, Williams said in a telephone interview that she is excited about a forthcoming acting role.
Williams said she was waiting for a movie script being written with a part specifically for her, but did not have a timetable for the project yet.
"I haven't talked with my Hollywood agent in a couple of days," she explained, chuckling at the sound of her life in the fast lane.
Williams has also charged into the pages of high fashion.
SWIMSUIT LAYOUTS
The full-bodied tennis champion had a special layout among all the leggy supermodels in a recent Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and is featured in the current issue of Vogue magazine, also modelling a swimsuit.
"I got a lot of positive feedback from the Sports Illustrated shoot. Actually it was all positive. People were astonished and amazed," she said. "And modeling for Vogue was fun. Every week that I'm not on the court, I'm doing a photo shoot or modelling for a magazine cover. It's wild."
Williams, like her sister Venus -- the world's No. 2 ranked women's tennis player -- is also serious about pursuing an interest in design.
While Venus is busy running a home interior design company, Serena is getting things in order for