When a would-be thief attempted to steal her phone, Serena Williams proved she's a force to be reckoned with off the tennis court, too.
On her Facebook page, Williams used her close call to encourage women to "step up to any challenge." Williams wrote that while eating a dinner of "delicious" Chinese food on Tuesday, a man stood next to her, and "something (I have now dubbed it my SUPERHERO sense) told me to watch him." Her phone was on the chair next to her, and even though she said she was watching him "from the corner of my eye," when she least expected it "this common petty thief grabbed my phone and swiftly left." That's when she jumped up, ran through the restaurant, and chased him. "He began to run but I was too fast," she said, adding that all the sprints she does during training "came in handy."
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