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Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, an Open Era record and the second-most all time behind Margaret Court. Williams has been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, third-most behind Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. She has won all four majors in singles at least three times, including seven titles at both Wimbledon and the Australian Open. Williams has also been world No. 1 in doubles and is undefeated in Grand Slam doubles finals, having won 14 such titles and three Olympic doubles gold medals with her sister Venus. She has been ranked as the greatest women's tennis player of the Open Era by Tennis magazine.

Originally coached by their father Richard in their hometown of Compton, the Williams sisters moved to Florida to train with Rick Macci when Serena was nine years old. Williams made her breakthrough on the WTA Tour by winning the 1999 US Open at age 17. From the 2001 US Open through the 2003 Wimbledon Championships, Williams faced her sister Venus in six out of nine major finals. After losing the first, she has since won all eight of their other meetings in major singles finals, including four consecutive from 2002 to 2003, a span during which she became No. 1 for the first time. Following 2003, Williams did not regain the No. 1 ranking until 2008, lacking consistency due to injuries. After winning five more singles majors and her 13th in singles overall from 2008 to 2010, she suffered a foot injury that forced her to miss nearly a year.

Following that missed time, Williams hired Patrick Mouratoglou as her coach in 2012. Over the next five years, she produced the most dominant and most consistent stretch of tennis of her career, winning 10 more major titles and tying Graf's record for the longest reign as world No. 1 at 186 consecutive weeks. She completed the career Golden Slam with an Olympic gold medal in singles at the 2012 London Olympics, had a career-best season with 11 titles in 2013, and won three consecutive US Open championships from 2012 to 2014. With her title at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, she joined Graf and Rod Laver as the only players in history to win four consecutive Grand Slam singles titles on two separate occasions. Since winning the 2017 Australian Open against Venus while pregnant, Williams's best results at the majors have been four runner-ups.

Williams is for the power in her serve and groundstrokes. The arrival of the Williams sisters has been credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the WTA Tour. Williams

Williams has won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year a record four times.