Serena Williams is a professional American tennis player. She’s been ranked as number one in the world at singles by the women’s tennis Association eight times since 2002. Some sports writers, commentators, and fans have ranked her as the best tennis player in the world. Her record clearly supports this. Not only is she ranked as number 14 319 weeks, she is also holding the most Grand Slam titles among active players. She is the only player, male or female, to have ever won 2 of the four Grand Slams a total of seven times each. Let’s take a look at this remarkable woman.
How Serena Williams Got Famous
The world’s most famous tennis player was born Serena Jamaica Williams on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan. Her parents are Oracane Price and Richard Williams. In addition to her tennis playing sister Venus, Serena also has three half-sisters on her mother’s side named Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha Price. The family up and moved to California when all of the children were young. Serena
Serena showed an interest in the sport of tennis when she was only three years old and was encouraged to play by her parents. Her father, Richard, decided to homeschool both Serena Williams and her sister Venus. Both Richard and their mother or a cane also took to the task of coaching their famous daughters in tennis. When Serena was just nine years old, she showed so much promise as a tennis player that her whole family uprooted and moved to Florida so that she could be taught by a famous tennis coach for free.
In West Palm Beach, Serena attended the Tennis Academy of Rick Macci. When Serena was 10 years old, her father decided to stop sending her and her sister to National Junior tennis tournaments under the guise of wanting them to focus on their school career. Unfortunately, he had heard racist and derogatory slurs against his daughters, and he thought they were too young to deal with such a thing. When they were teenagers, their father poults both of them out of the Tennis Academy to coach her and Venus from home.
Serena Williams’s Athletic Career
In 1995, Serena Williams participated in her first professional event at the Bell Challenge in Québec. Unfortunately, she lost in the first round and won just two games. It didn’t take her long to get into the groove of tournaments. In 1997, she ranked number 99 in the world for the best female player that year, she also became the lowest ranked player in the opens to rain defeat upon two top 10 opponents.
Serena Williams successes continued well on into adulthood. She went on to become a top 10 player between 1999 and 2001. She didn’t let setbacks like injuries keep her down for long. Even though she was injured in 2002, she came back and won her first title of the year in Arizona, as well as the Miami Masters. She competed in Wimbledon and won in 2002. In 2006, Serena suffered from depression and kept away from professional tennis for half of the year. She returned with a vengeance and started kicking butt again. Now, in 2017, she took some time off for her pregnancy. She even won the Australian open in January 2017 when she was eight weeks pregnant. She gave birth to a girl on September 1, 2017, naming her Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.
Serena Williams’s Romantic Life
Serena is currently engaged to the co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian. They made the announcement on December 29, 2016. A short four months later, Serena made her pregnancy announcement on Snapchat.
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Serena Williams’s Other Social Media Accounts
What is Serena Williams’s Personal Facebook?
As is common for most celebrities, Serena Williams does not have a public personal Facebook profile. You can, however, find her official Facebook page here. The page has over 5 million likes, and just as many followers. Recently, Serena posted an article about her newborn daughter. Even with all that was going on in her life, Serena took the time out to promote hand-in-hand, which is a benefit that for victims of Hurricane Harvey. She mostly uses the social media platform to promote things that she is a brand ambassador for, as well as videos or articles that she is in.
What is Serena Williams’s Instagram name?
The tennis star has 6.6 million followers, and 1028 posts. You can join her followers by clicking here. As of September 2017, you can find a line of candid pregnancy photos of Serena, as well as an adorable photo of her and her newborn baby. There are some professional photos on here, as well as the racy naked pregnancy photo from her Vanity Fair cover and vacation candids.
What is Serena Williams’s Kik Username or Code?
It does not seem like Serena Williams has an account on the Kik Messenger app, or at least not one that she shares with her fans.
What is Serena Williams’s YouTube Page?
Serena Williams does not have her own YouTube page. You can still find many videos of the star in her various tennis matches, as well as of clip of her soon-to-be husband narrating their ultrasound video.
What is Serena Williams Twitter page?
You can find Serena Williams on twitter under the handle @SerenaWilliams, Or simply by clicking here. She has over 9.26 million followers on the microblogging platform, while she only follows 343 people. Serena has tweeted out over 13,000 times, including retweets, which is reasonable for someone that joined in March 2009 when the site first started. She uses this platform to open up more to her fans and post personal reflections on things. On August 13, 2017, for example, she tweeted “it’s official. I no longer have ankles” referring to her pregnancy bloat.
