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Serena Williams is an American professional women's tennis player. She has won seven Grand Slam singles titles and was the World No. 1 in 2002. She is ... famous as the younger sister of Venus Williams.
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Serena Williams and her sister Venus became stars of women's tennis in the late 1990s. The sisters were African-Americans, then a rarity in pro tennis, and quickly became known for their powerful games and flashy outfits. Like Tiger Woods, Serena and Venus were child prodigies who began playing their chosen game before kindergarten. Serena is a year younger than Venus and (at 5'10") about three inches shorter, but she was the first sister to win a major tournament by claiming the singles title at the 1999 U.S. Open. Serena went on to become the dominant women's tennis player of the early 2000s; in 2002-03 she won the "Serena slam" by holding all four grand slam titles at once: the 2002 French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles, and the 2003 Australian Open. Her other major titles are Wimbledon in 2003 and the Australian Open in 2005 and 2007.
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Along with her older sister Venus, Serena Williams has helped bring back the excitement to women’s tennis. A tennis prodigy almost from birth, Serena Williams won her first tournament before she was five years old and she won a remarkable 46 of 49 tournaments before age 10. She turned pro at the age of 14 and it didn’t take her long to climb all the way up to the #1 ranking. She has won all four Grand Slam events, including Wimbledon twice, the U.S. Open twice and the Australian Open three times. She’s ... a gold medal winner in doubles tennis with her sister. After a bit of a lull due to injuries, Serena Williams made it known that she’s still a force to be reckoned with when she took the 2007 Australian Open with a dominant performance over Maria Sharapova.
Serena Williams was born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw Michigan and is the youngest of five sisters: Lyndrea, Isha, Yetunde, and Venus. Her parents, Richard and Oracene, later relocated to Los Angeles, and the girls grew up in Compton, a rough L.A. suburb.
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Serena Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan. When she and her four sisters were young, their parents, Richard and Oracene (... called Brandy), took them to the poor and sometimes violent Los Angeles suburb of Compton. Her father dreamed of making at least one of his daughters a tennis superstar, hoping that involvement in sports would give them a way out of that neighborhood.
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Serena Williams’ first major achievement was capturing the US Open singles title in 1999. She partnered with her sister to gain doubles titles in the US Open (1999), French Open (1999), Wimbledon (2000, 2002), and Australian Open (2001, 2003). Further successes include singles titles at the French Open (2002), Wimbledon (2002, 2003), the US Open (2002), and the Australian Open (2003).
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