Venus and serenas williams biography

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    Serena Williams

    American sport player (born 1981)

    Williams at say publicly 2013 Windy Open

    Full nameSerena Jameka Williams
    Country (sports) United States
    ResidencePalm Beach Gardens, Florida, U.S.[1]
    Born (1981-09-26) Sep 26, 1981 (age 43)
    Saginaw, Lake, U.S.
    Height5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1]
    Turned proOctober 1995
    RetiredSeptember 2022
    PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
    Prize moneyUS$94,816,730[2]
    Official websitewww.serenawilliams.com
    Career record858–156
    Career titles73 (5th focal overall rankings)
    Highest rankingNo. 1 (July 8, 2002)
    Australian OpenW (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017)
    French OpenW (2002, 2013, 2015)
    WimbledonW (2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016)
    US OpenW (1999, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014)
    Grand Slam CupW (1999)
    Tour FinalsW (2001, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014)
    Olympic GamesW (2012)
    Career record192–35
    Career titles23
    Highest rankingNo. 1 (June 21, 2010)
    Australian OpenW (2001, 2003, 2009, 2010)
    French OpenW (1999, 2010)
    WimbledonW (2000, 2002, 2008,
  • venus and serenas williams biography

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    Serena and Venus Williams: Inside Their Close Bond and Competitive History

    They arrived like an earthquake that shook the foundation of the country-club atmosphere of tennis, a one-two punch of unnaturally gifted, unapologetically Black athletes who gained victories at the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

    But while Venus and Serena Williams changed the face of the sport as they progressed from upstarts to unquestioned champions to revered veterans, they remained unchanged in their devotion to one another, their sisterly love lifting them through personal challenges, public failures and numerous heated battles for on-court bragging rights.

    Serena tried to copy Venus when they were children

    By now, much has been made of the girls' entry into tennis through the unorthodox methods of their father, Richard: After realizing the prize money available in the sport, he taught himself, his wife and three older daughters how to play, before striking gold with Venus and Serena on the public courts of Compton, California, in the 1980s.

    Venus and Serena soon crept into the national spotlight as tennis prodigies, though this was mainly due to the eye-popping efforts of older sister Venus; already crushing the ball at speeds of almost 100 mph by age 11, she went undef

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    Venus Williams and Serena - Biography

    Early childhood

    Born on June 17, 1980, and September 26, 1981, the youngest of five sisters, Venus and Serena Williams were not much more than toddlers when their father, entrepreneur Richard Williams, set in motion what was to become a sporting juggernaut. Legend has it that before the two girls were born, their father, having watched Virginia Ruzici pick up $22,000 for winning the French Open women's singles championship, vowed that any future children he might have with wife Oracene would be tennis players. He started teaching a four-year-old Venus on a court in Los Angeles' notoriously rough East Compton park, but in 1988, disgusted by the behaviour of fanatical parents on the junior tennis circuit, tried to persuade his eight-year-old daughter to quit. She refused, and a year later, gave up a promising track career - despite having clocked up an incredible 5.29-minute mile the previous year - in order to concentrate on her tennis. In 1991 Richard uprooted his family to enroll bothVenus and Serenain Rick Macci's Delray Beach Tennis Academy in Florida, where they trained, "six hours a day, six days a week for four years". 

    Becoming tennis champions 

    Their early dedication paid off when the sisters turned p