HERSTORY 💫 Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams is considered the greatest women’s tennis player of all time. Williams has 23 Grand Slam titles and has revolutionized women’s tennis since the 1990s.

In 1995, at the age of 14, Williams made her professional debut at a qualifying event in Quebec City. In 1998, Williams’s ranking rose to number 20 and she surpassed Monica Seles to become the fastest player to record five victories against Top 10 players.

The Williams sisters are credited with ushering in the power era of women’s tennis, characterized by blindingly-fast serves and commanding groundstrokes. They competed together as doubles partners, eventually winning 14 Grand Slam doubles titles. They took gold at the 2000, 2008, and 2012 Olympics and are the winningest doubles tennis team in Olympic history.

Moving into some trouble times between 2003 and 2011 Serena didn’t let it stop her as she still competed when she could and conquered. In between 2013-2015 though she marked her third, fourth, and fifth number-one seasons, after which she had won her 21st Grand Slam championship and completed her second Serena Slam.

In 2017 Williams won the Australian Open. It was her 23rd Grand Slam title, she also became a mother to daughter #AlexisOlympiaOhanianJr., and a Wife to Reddit co-founder #AlexisOhanian. Although, she faced a difficult delivery her experience allowed for open dialogue with the health of pregnant AA women. Returning to tennis in 2018 at no. 549 the “S by Serena” owner cause action to occur from the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) with a new rule based on childbirth and injury.

Outside of tennis, she is a clothing and jewelry designer. She serves as a UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador; has opened two secondary schools in Kenya; and sits on the board of the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative. She has her own venture capital firm, Serena Ventures, that invests in technology companies owned or led by women and African Americans.

Named AP Female Athlete of the Decade for her dominance in the 2010s, Serena continues to inspire young tennis players and women today even after her retirement from tennis!
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