Top-ranked female tennis player Serena Williams recently took to Facebook to tell the tale of how she unleashed her superhero mode to chase down someone who tried to steal her phone. Williams managed to recover her phone and shared the story to her 3.8 million Facebook followers.

In a Facebook post tagged with sister Venus Williams and tennis pal Caroline Wozniacki, the 21-time grand slam champion shared a picture of herself wearing a superwoman costume. According to Serena, she was having dinner with a friend at a Chinese restaurant when a man standing beside their table suddenly grabbed her phone, which was on a chair, before fleeing onto the street.

Williams said she was already having an “eerie feeling” about the man but tried to shrug it off. It turned out that her "superhero" intuitions were correct.

“I kept watching him from the corner of my eye,” Williams wrote. “Then when least expected, low and behold, this common petty thief grabbed my phone and swiftly left.”

Williams claimed she looked at her chair and saw that her phone was already gone. She said she instantly leaped from her seat and made her way out of the restaurant to chase down the thief. She added that she was faster than the perpetrator.

In what Williams described as her “most menacing yet calm no nonsense voice,” she reportedly asked the thief if he accidentally took the wrong phone, to which the man replied, “Gosh you know what, I did, it was so confusing in there, I must have grabbed the wrong phone.”

Williams said she received a standing ovation when she got back to the restaurant. The tennis champion described the incident as crazy and left a message to ladies, telling them to never be frightened to step up to any challenge and fight for what is right.

Williams is currently on a break to recuperate from the injuries she sustained this season. She skipped the Beijing tournament and women’s tennis season-ending tournament in Singapore, which was won by Agnieszka Radwanska. The American is expected to take part in the second season of the International Premier Tennis League to represent the Philippine Mavericks before she begins her preparations for the next season.

Williams claimed five titles this year, including three grand slam trophies (Australian Open, Wimbledon, and French Open) and wins in Cincinnati and Miami. She ended the season ranked first with a win-loss record of 53-3.

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