Serena Williams: The Life of A Legend
The 40-year-old pro tennis superstar revealed that she is ending her career. But she has three decades of accomplishments to look back on.
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Born Sept. 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Mich, Serena Jameka Williams moved with her family, including older sister Venus, to Compton, Calif., and started playing tennis there at age 4.
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But with the promise the two sisters showed, they later moved to West Palm Beach to attend the Rick Macci Tennis Academy.
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By the time she was 10, Williams had a record of 46–3 record on the United States Tennis Association junior tour.
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When she became a teenager, Williams father, Richard Wiliams pulled the sisters out of Macci's academy and the junior tennis circuit, and supervised all of their coaching.
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Williams went pro in 1995 at just 14 years old. After a series of tournament losses, ranked 96 in 1998, she defeated No. 3 Lindsay Davenport at the Medibank International in Sydney, Australia.
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From there, the Williams sisters went on to dominate the women's tennis game. Both have been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association at No. 1 with a combined 122 women's singles titles, 45 women's doubles titles, and four Olympic gold medals each.
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But Serena's dominance continued to emerge in 2002, when she defeated her sister at Wimbledon winning a Grand Slam singles title for the first time.
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That was the beginning of a new era in which she was the one to beat. Williams went on to win 23 Grand Slam titles, second only to Australia's Margaret Court's 24.
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Injuries plagued her career in the period between 2005 and 2010, causing losses, but also leaving her with a determination to play, ending her years several times ranked No. 1.
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