American skilled tennis player Serena Williams has accomplished over 20 Grand Slam singles titles and numerous Olympic gold medals. Serena Jameka Williams was born September 26, 1981 in Saginaw Michigan. She is the youngest of five daughters. Her father Richard and mother Oracene Williams have two daughters, Serena and her sister Venus, which became two of tennis great champions. Serena’s father was determined to see his two daughters succeed in tennis so when he moved his family out to Compton, California he trained his two daughters. He used tennis records and videotapes to train his two daughters on how to play the game. At the age of three Serena was having daily two-hour practices with her father. In 1991, Serena ranked first in the 10
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In August of 2003 she underwent knee surgery and just a month later her half-sister Yetunde was murdered in Los Angeles, California. Serena’s tennis ranking slump up to 139. Many people said she seemed worn-out with no motivation to stay fit or keep up with the title she once had. Soon after she took a trip out to West Africa where she accredited her faith as a Jehovah’s Witness to start this new life changing journey. By 2009, she had released a new autobiography called “Queen of the Court” and by then had won her place back at the top by winning both the 2009 Australian Open singles for the fourth time and the 2009 Wimbledon singles for the third time. That year not everything was going good for Serena. In September she made headlines when she lost the US Open for supposedly threatening abusive words at a line judge for making a bad call. She eventually talked about it but down played the situation saying that she never threatened the woman. But the incident still happened and as a punishment from the U.S Tennis Association they fined her 10,000 on the stop then two months later by the Grand Slam committee she was fined 82,500 and was placed on a two-year probation for the incident. This is the largest punishment ever against a tennis player. Now Serena has 20 grand Slam titles, with a slam they even refer to as the “Serena Slam” and she is the oldest Grand Slam Champion that has four
In August of 2003 she underwent knee surgery and just a month later her half-sister Yetunde was murdered in Los Angeles, California. Serena’s tennis ranking slump up to 139. Many people said she seemed worn-out with no motivation to stay fit or keep up with the title she once had. Soon after she took a trip out to West Africa where she accredited her faith as a Jehovah’s Witness to start this new life changing journey. By 2009, she had released a new autobiography called “Queen of the Court” and by then had won her place back at the top by winning both the 2009 Australian Open singles for the fourth time and the 2009 Wimbledon singles for the third time. That year not everything was going good for Serena. In September she made headlines when she lost the US Open for supposedly threatening abusive words at a line judge for making a bad call. She eventually talked about it but down played the situation saying that she never threatened the woman. But the incident still happened and as a punishment from the U.S Tennis Association they fined her 10,000 on the stop then two months later by the Grand Slam committee she was fined 82,500 and was placed on a two-year probation for the incident. This is the largest punishment ever against a tennis player. Now Serena has 20 grand Slam titles, with a slam they even refer to as the “Serena Slam” and she is the oldest Grand Slam Champion that has four