Serena Williams is on the cusp of tennis history.
She'll complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam in tennis since Steffi Graf did it way back in 1988 if she can win the U.S. Open, which began in New York City this week. She'll become just the second person in tennis history to pull off the calendar Grand Slam feat if she takes the Open, and she'll be regarded by most as the best woman to ever play the game.
But once upon a time, Serena was just a young girl with a prescient sense of the unique power of her own individuality.
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That's the premise of the new Gatorade spot, embedded atop this post, premiering on Mashable. The spot opens on Serena and older sister Venus back when they were child tennis prodigies from Compton, California, more than 20 years ago.
"If you were a tennis player, who would you want to be like?" someone off-camera asks young Serena.
Before she answers, we cut to a montage of seminal moments in Serena's career. Then we flash back a couple decades to the interviewer's question of young Serena.
We won't spoil the end, but Serena's childhood answer just might send a chill down your spine.