Two bros were playing a casual game of tennis. Then Serena Williams showed up.

Talk about an amazing encounter.
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Sam Laird
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Two bros were playing a casual game of tennis. Then Serena Williams showed up.
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It's a crisp evening as you and a friend play a casual game of tennis. You're getting the blood flowing, breathing some fresh air, and decompressing just a bit. Casual. And then -- holy crap is that Serena Williams?!?

Yes, that is Serena Williams. What's more, she says this story is one with a moral: You never know when the GOAT might crash your game of tennis.

Williams was out for a stroll in San Francisco's Mission District on Sunday night when she came across two chill bros playing some tennis at Dolores Park. She was wearing a pair of fuzzy slipper-like boots instead of her usual tennis shoes -- but that didn't stop her from jumping in the game.

The very awesome encounter -- from Williams first spying the game, to the two players' stunned reactions -- was documented on her Snapchat channel. Here's a look, via ForTheWin's Alysha Tsuji.

"So the moral of the story is," Williams says, while a bit breathless after the game, "you never know when I could be coming to a tennis court near you."

But it probably helps that this particular tennis court happens to be located in San Francisco, where Reddit is headquartered. Reddit's co-founder is Alexis Ohanian, to whom Williams became engaged last December.

But still. We won't blame tennis players the world over for holding out just a little bit of hope now that Williams might crash their own game one day.

Perhaps just as remarkable in these mega-branded times, the encounter appears to be just a bit of spontaneous fun, not some native ad for a sneaky company. That might be the best part of all of this.

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Sam Laird

Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.

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