Serena Williams

Serena Williams is an American tennis player, four-time Olympic champion, winner of the non-calendar Grand Slam and career Golden Slam. The younger sister of the world champion Venus Williams.

Serena was born in September 1981 in the US state of Michigan. But in the town of Saginaw, only the first years of the girl's life passed. Later, the family changed their place of residence more than once, moving either to California or Florida. It must be said that Serena and Venus were the youngest of 5 daughters. The three older sisters - Etunda, Isha and Lindreya - are maternal steps.

World tennis legend Serena Jameka Williams was preparing to ascend to the sports Olympus from early childhood. The younger daughters, Serena and Venus, were prepared for this by their father Richard Williams. He brought his daughters to the court when they were 3 and 4 years old. First of all, the girls learned to practice hitting the ball. Richard did not make indulgences at a young age, but immediately gave his daughters adult rackets. Since then, the father constantly monitored the girls' training process, even when the athletes officially had other mentors. He did not give up coaching girls when he divorced his wife in 1999.

After the family moved to Compton, California, Serena and her sister entered the McKee Tennis Academy. From early childhood, Serena showed a stubborn fighting character. Unbeknownst to her father, the girl at the age of 8 signed up for a tournament with Venus, where she took only second place, while her older sister won the prize cup. In order not to upset Serena, Venus exchanged awards with her, saying that she had always loved silver more than gold. Serena still remembers the noble deed of her older sister.

From the very first days, the academy teachers noted the promising nature of the young tennis player. The girl has already developed her own style of play - impetuous, energetic and unpredictable. During matches, Serena Williams literally swept opponents off the court.

The girl took an active part in various competitions for juniors. Even then, the countdown of her triumphant victories began. The athlete confidently moved into adult tennis.

At the age of 14, the girl was among the professional players. At this point, Serena left the academy. Only the father was involved in the preparation. Subsequent events resembled a real miracle.

In 1997, when Serena Williams occupied only 304 place in the ranking of the world's rackets, the girl managed to beat the strongest tennis player of that time, Monica Seles. Another incredible victory soon followed - over the athlete Marie Pierce. This allowed Serena to get into the top hundred of the world's strongest tennis players. From that moment, the athlete became a regular participant in the WTA tournaments.

The following year, the African American appeared in the Grand Slam tournament. After several rapid victories, Williams, who is 175 cm tall and weighs 70 kg, took the 20th place in the world tennis association ranking. A few months later, the star managed to win the Grand Slam tournament. Serena managed to accomplish this in Wimbledon, at the mixed pairs tournament. The girl played in tandem with the Belarusian Maxim Mirny. With him, she snatched a victory at the US Open.

In singles, Serena Williams managed to win an impressive victory in 1999, leaving behind strong rivals Lindsay Davenport and Martin Hingis. As a result of this brilliant victory, the tennis player raised the United States Open Cup over her head.

From that moment on, Serena's leadership at the highest level tournaments became common practice. Williams has won 32 Grand Slam tournaments. Together with her sister, she achieved Olympic gold three times. She also managed to win in the singles competition.

Serena Williams is the only athlete who managed to regain her former positions after a long break in her sports biography. In 2003, the tennis player experienced a huge shock due to the death of her half-sister. For 8 months the girl could not return to the court. And when she came out and began to regain lost ground, she received an unfortunate injury. And again a season-long pass.

But Serena is called a legend for a reason. Williams found the strength to fully recover and again took first place in the WTA world rankings.

The Williams sisters, as expected, took part in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. To the surprise of the fans, they lost in the first round of the tournament to a pair of Lucia Shafarzhova and Barbora Strytsova. In the singles tournament, Serena was also disappointed, the athlete lost to Elina Svitolina.

In 2016, a doping scandal erupted over the exposure of the WADA association by the Fancy Bears hacker group. The documents provided showed that the Williams sisters had been using illegal drugs for a long time. WADA regularly issued doping licenses to tennis players.

According to the data indicated by hackers, since 2010, Serena Williams has been taking drugs oxycodone, hydromorphone, prednisolone and others, which were recommended to the girl for medical reasons. Serena Williams herself did not deny this fact, arguing the intake of drugs by the presence of chronic diseases. At the same time, Maria Sharapova was disqualified for 2 years for using Mildronate.

Serena Williams has managed to achieve success not only in sports. The girl also excelled as a designer for the sportswear brand Aneres. The world tennis star signs lucrative contracts with renowned companies Reebok, Puma and Nike.

The athlete is also known as an actress. Serena Williams' cinematic biography includes more than 10 titles of feature and documentary films. The first racket of the world was also involved as a voice actress. The voice of the athlete is spoken by the heroes of the cartoon "Avatar: The Legend of Aang" and "The Legend of Korra".

Serena Williams' personal life is also eventful. The girl had affairs with several famous representatives of American show business and athletes. The connection with the famous football player Bryant McKinney is heard. After breaking up with him, Serena dated actor Jackie Long.

At one time, according to media reports, the name Williams was closely associated with the owner of the tennis academy and businessman Patrick Muratoglu. It is noteworthy that earlier the African-American woman stated that she could not imagine herself next to a man whose skin color would be lighter than hers. But Patrick turned out to be an ethnic Greek.

In 2017, public attention was once again riveted to the private life of Serena Williams. The athlete did not hide her pregnancy, as evidenced by the photo of Serena on her Instagram. The chosen tennis player was the creator of the social network Reddit Alexis Ohanyan, an Armenian by birth. Daughter Alexis Olympia was born on September 1, 2017.

After the birth of the child, two months later, the couple got married. The gala event, which took place in New Orleans, was attended by Ciara and Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Eva Longoria. The rights to the exclusive photo session of the event were acquired by Vogue magazine.

Serena Williams is scheduled to go to court at the end of 2017. But the loss to Elena Ostapenko at the tournament in Abu Dhabi showed that Serena is not yet in the shape to participate in the competition. The athlete decided to skip the Australian Open. But already in March 2018 she performed at the WTA - BNP Paribas Open tournament in Indian Wells.

Before the competition, Serena Williams' husband gave his wife a surprise. On the way to the stadium, the businessman placed billboards with pictures of Serena and her newborn daughter. Each billboard was signed "Best Mom of All Time". The recognition of Alexis moved Serena, and the athlete even managed to beat Zarina Diyas from Kazakhstan and Kiki Bertens from the Netherlands in two matches. But on the third lap, Serena's rival was Sister Venus, who won the set.

Now Serena Williams continues to participate in tennis competitions. At the tournament in Miami, the tennis player was again disappointed: the American failed to overcome the first round, in which she lost to the athlete from Japan Naomi Osaka.

2000 - gold medal at the Sydney Olympics 2008 - gold medal at the Beijing 2012 Olympics - two gold medals at the London Olympics

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Serena Williams Net Worth 2021

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Serena Williams Net Worth 2020

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Serena Williams Net Worth 2019

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Serena Williams Net Worth 2017

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