Serena Williams is the most love women athlete in the world because of all the great things she has done and she continues to do. She continues to inspire women around the world and that is why she is still great at what she does.
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Here are some facts about her:
1.Serena Williams was born on the 26th of September 1981 and she is the youngest of her five sisters.
2.Her middle name is Jameka
3.Her father is Richard Williams and her mother is Oracene Price who are her coaches and mentors.
4.She started playing tennis from the age of three and at the age of nine the family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida so she could attend the tennis academy of Rick Macci.
5.She has second sport she loves after tennis and that is gymnastics.
6.Williams had a 46–3 record on the United States Tennis Association junior tour and was ranked No. 1 among under-10 players in Florida. In 1995 when Serena was in the 9th grade her father pulled her out of the Academy and all coaching was done at home.
7.Williams’s first professional match was in September at the age of 14, where she only just won 2 game.
8.Williams won her first professional title in doubles in Oklahoma City with Venus, becoming the third pair of sisters to win a WTA titles where she was also ranked No. 20 in singles.
9.She won her first major title in 1999 at the U.S. Open, where she won against Martina Hingis in the final.
10.She established Serena Williams Foundation, to assist American youth touched by violent crime and also underprivileged children around the world.
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11.She has won 21 straight matches at the U.S. Open. Her last loss was to Samantha Stosur in the 2011 final.
12.Serena Williams was ranked No.1 for the first time on July 8th 2002 and achieved the ranking for the sixth time on the 18th of February 2013
13.She has played in 60 Grand Slams and has won 21 of them.
14.She has been ranked No. 1 for 253 weeks in her career with three players — Graf (377), Martina Navratilova (332) and Evert (260).
15.Serena Williams has competed at the Olympics (three time to be exact) and has won four gold medals.
16.She has lost just nine matches in her 15 U.S. Open appearances. Venus Williams was the only player to beat her twice.
17.She has won 28 straight matches and four straight titles at Grand Slam events.
18.Williams is also a five-time winner of the WTA Tour Championships.
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19.She is No. 47 on this year’s Forbes list of highest-paid athletes. She ranked in a reported $24.6 million between June 2014 and June 2015.
20.She recently won her 22 Grand Slam title on Saturday the 9th of September 2016
21.In 2004 Williams ranked world No. 7, but did not win a Grand Slam singles tournament for the first time since 2001.
22.She has won about $70 million in career prize money, more than any other female athlete
This is why she is regarded as the greatest female tennis player of all time.