Born on September 26, 1981, Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf for the most consecutive weeks as No. 1 by a female tennis player. In total, she has been No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third in the 'Open Era' among female players behind Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova (Pics/ Serena Williams' Instagram)
Born on September 26, 1981, Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf for the most consecutive weeks as No. 1 by a female tennis player. In total, she has been No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third in the 'Open Era' among female players behind Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova (Pics/ Serena Williams' Instagram)
Serena Williams total of 23 Grand Slam singles titles marks the record for the most Grand Slam wins by a tennis player in the Open Era, and is second on the all-time list behind Margaret Court. She is also the only tennis player to have won ten Grand Slam singles titles in two separate decades. She has won an all-time record of 13 Grand Slam singles titles on hard court. Williams holds the Open Era record for most titles won at the Australian Open and shares the Open Era record for most titles won at the US Open with Chris Evert (6). She also holds the all-time record for the most women's singles matches won at majors with 331 matches
Serena Williams married Alex Ohanian in 2017, Alexis Kerry Ohanian is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor, who is co-founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit. He also co-founded the early stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig
Serena Williams married Alex Ohanian in 2017, Alexis Kerry Ohanian is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor, who is co-founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit. He also co-founded the early stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig
Serena Williams first announced her engagement to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in December 2016
Serena Williams first announced her engagement to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in December 2016
On her daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian's first birthday in September 2018, Serena Williams revealed that she will not celebrate her birthday. Serena Williams said that her family is Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a breakaway sect of Christianity, they do not celebrate religious holidays such as Christmas and Easter, and do not celebrate birthdays either. They believe that these festivals have pagan origins
Serena Williams is very confident of her body and loves to post pictures of hers in bikinis. Here she is rocking this black and fluorescent bikini
Serena Williams is very confident of her body and loves to post pictures of hers in bikinis. Here she is rocking this black and fluorescent bikini
She is the only player to win a career Grand Slam, double Grand Slam and career Golden Slam after age 30
Serena Williams is the only player to win 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two different decades (2000 to 2009 and 2010 to 2017)
Serena Williams is the only player to win 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two different decades (2000 to 2009 and 2010 to 2017)
Serena Williams has also appeared on various TV shows such as 'ER', 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', 'My Wife and Kids', 'America's Next Top Model', amongst others
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