Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player. She is indeed the superstar of the Tennis World. With her hard work and indomitable spirit, she secured 23 Grand Slam singles titles and won WTA No. 1 for 319 weeks. Williams also has won a record 13 Grand Slam singles titles on hard court and holds the Open Era record for most women’s singles titles at the Australian Open. She is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won three of the four Grand Slams at least 6 times. Because of her extraordinary performance in tennis, there is a term Serena Slam associated with her name in the tennis world!
What is the Serena Slam?
A Serena Slam is when you win four of those Grand Slams in a row, a feat Williams achieved with her Wimbledon victory. The term evolved after considering the achievement. She has two Serena slams in her career.
Serena Williams – The Superstar
She holds the most major titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles. She is also the most recent woman to have held all four major singles titles simultaneously (2002–03 and 2014–15) and has held all four Grand Slam women’s doubles titles simultaneously (2009–10). She is also the only American player, male or female, to win more than 20 majors. Williams is also a five-time winner of the WTA Tour Championships in the singles division
Williams has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles and they are the only tennis players in history with four Olympic gold medals, as well as the only ones to win Olympic gold in the same event on three occasions.
Serena is regarded as an aggressive baseliner, whose game is centered around her powerful serve and forceful groundstrokes. Because of her high-risk playing style, she typically hits a large number of both winners and unforced errors. Her greatest asset is her serve, which is considered the greatest in the history of women’s tennis. Her serve is known for its fast pace and accurate placement and in the 2013 Australian Open, she served at a pace of 128.6 mph (207 km/h) which is regarded as the third-fastest serve recorded in WTA history
Earning almost $29 million in prize money and endorsements, Serena was the world’s highest-paid woman athlete in 2016. She repeated this feat in 2017 when she was the only woman on Forbes‘ list of the 100 highest-paid athletes with $27 million in prize money and endorsements. She has won the ‘Laureus Sportswoman of the Year’ award four times (2003, 2010, 2016, 2018), and in December 2015, she was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine. In 2021, she was ranked 28th on Forbes‘ World’s Highest-Paid Athletes list. In terms of career prize money, she stands as the highest-earning woman athlete of all time.
Where to Check Serena Williams photo?
Serena is an active social media person and you can find her snaps on her Instagram page @serenawilliams. It has got over 14.1 million followers and has over 1827 posts. Most of them are her modeling photoshoots and random beautiful moments in her life. She has also posted many pictures with her daughter Olympia. Gazing through her photos we can understand that she is also a stylish icon and has evolved her unique fashion style. The confidence and energy Serene displays on her ground are reflected in her postures in the photoshoots also.
Serena Williams- Biography
Serena was born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan to Oracene Price and Richard Williams. She has five siblings: Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha Price, and the famous tennis star Venus Williams When the children were young, the family moved to Compton, California, where Serena started playing tennis at the age of four. Her father home-schooled Serena and her sister, Venus
Her first professional event was in October 1995 at the Bell Challenge in Quebec, where she used a wild-card entry to circumvent age-eligibility rules. She lost in the first round of qualifying to then 18-year-old American Annie Miller, winning just two games. From then on she began participating in national and international tournaments and achieved the heights of tennis with her sister Venus.
Williams is married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in 2017. In September 2017, Williams gave birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr, who is often referred to as “Olympia”. Along with her tennis career, she is active in entertainment, fashion, business, writing, and philanthropy.
