--- title: Serena Williams U.S. Open Grand Slam Gatorade Ad description: Serena Williams' latest ad backs up that she might be the best of the best canonical: https://time.com/4019937/serena-williams-gatorade-ad/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-02T14:19:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:10.314Z og:title: Watch a Young Serena Williams Predict a Lifetime of Excellence og:description: "If you were a tennis player, who would you want to be like?" og:url: https://time.com/4019937/serena-williams-gatorade-ad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt349975e99f0dafe6/698861fd196cf420b0037da7/serena-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=1157&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1157 og:image:height: 651 og:image:alt: serena williams og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Young Serena Williams Predict a Lifetime of Excellence twitter:description: "If you were a tennis player, who would you want to be like?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt349975e99f0dafe6/698861fd196cf420b0037da7/serena-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=1157&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Young Serena Williams Predict a Lifetime of Excellence > Sponsored content. 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Hype for Serena Williams prompted the women’s singles final match to sell out before the men’s match_ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Sep 2, 2015 2:19 PM UTC  by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Sep 2, 2015 2:19 PM UTC Gatorade’s latest “Win From Within” ad features an ever inspiring Serena Williams in a series of flashbacks from her career. The tennis champ, who is currently competing in the U.S. Open, has been put on a pedestal of being perhaps the best in the sport — and this ad completely backs that up. If Williams wins the [U.S. Open](http://time.com/4013929/serena-williams-2015-us-open/), she will be the first woman to win a calendar year Grand Slam — which includes a sweep of the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open — since 1988. Watch as the young athlete is interviewed about who she wants to be like when she grows up. Her answer? She wants people to be like her. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Obviously I want to win, I want to do the best I can do but, that's all I can do, and as long as I give my best effort out there, that's all I can The mass flow. 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