Residence : Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Born : September 26, 1981 (1981-09-26) (age 30)
Saginaw, Michigan
Height : 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight : 70.3 kg (155 lb)
Turned pro : September 1995
Plays : Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money : US$ 34,883,357
(1st all-time among women athletes and 4th all-time among tennis athletes)
With the best serve in the women’s game, Serena Williams is currently seventh on the all-time Grand Slam singles titles list with 11, the most of any active player. Having learned to play tennis on public courts in Compton, Calif., alongside her older sister Venus, Serena became the first Williams sister to win a major singles title in 1999, when at age 17 she defeated No. 1 Martina Hingis in the U.S. Open final. Williams made it back to the U.S. Open final in 2001, losing to Venus in straight sets. From 2002 through 2003 she won four consecutive Grand Slam singles titles (2002 French Open, 2002 Wimbledon, 2002 U.S. Open, 2003 Australian Open), a feat that was dubbed the “Serena Slam.” Williams is the fifth woman, behind Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf, to hold all four major titles simultaneously. Serena defeated her sister in the finals of the four majors that comprised that run. With the victory in Melbourne in 2003, Serena became the ninth woman in history to achieve the career Grand Slam. She held the No. 1 ranking for 57 consecutive weeks from 2002 to 2003. She added a second career Wimbledon title in 2003, but then won just two majors (2005 and 2007 Australian Opens) in the five-year span that followed. In 2008, a resurgent Serena won her third career U.S. Open title and regained the No. 1 ranking for four weeks.
Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Williams
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