Serena Williams

Serena Williams went from learning tennis on public courts in a notorious American gangland neighborhood to becoming a superstar for a generation and ...

Emotions full ground as Serena Williams wave bye-bye to di US Open - and her ogbonge career - afta she lose to Australia Ajla Tomljanovic on a trilling ...

After a 27-year professional career in tennis that brought 39 grand slam titles — 23 singles titles, 14 doubles titles, and two mixed doubles titles — and ...

Thank you for being you and the inspiration to so many men and women. Thank u for showing us what greatness looks like ! U have inspired us all . I love you little sis!!!!!! Thank you for inspiring all of us to pursue our dreams. I’m terrible at goodbyes, the world’s worst.” “I’ve been reluctant to admit that I have to move on from playing tennis. “Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. “I have never liked the word retirement. In 2017, Williams won her 23rd and most recent major title at the Australian Open while pregnant with Olympia, her daughter. Venus Williams In September 1999, Williams would secure her first Grand Slam win, taking down the then No.

Nasarorin da Williams ta samu - lashe gasar Grand Slam sau 23, makonni 319 a matsayin zakara a duniya da ƙarin wasu kambu 14 sun karfafa matsayinta a ...

Lokaci ne da aka kashe babbar yayarta Yetunde Price a wani harin bindiga, da kuma ya kasance lokaci da take fama da raunuka. Nasarar kuma ta kasance ta farko da ta samu a matsayin ta na uwa. Murnar da Serena ta yi bayan doke Jessica Pegula a gasar Auckland Classic ya kasance na daban a wajenta. Ta hanyar daga hannun ta a sama da sauko da kanta da kuma yin ihu, Williams ta kara nanata abin da muka sani na cewa za ta ci gaba da jajircewa a wasa tennis. Sai dai ta yi amfani da damar da ta samu a gaba a gasar Australian Open, inda ta samu nasara kan 'yar uwarta Venus da kuma karya tarihin da Graf ta kafa. Duk da cewa Williams ta yi rashin nasara a dukka wasannin, amma ta koma fagen daga da kuma nuna cewa har yanzu tana daya daga cikin taurarin tennis a duniya. Ta samu nasarar ne da ci 6-4 da kuma 6-4 kan 'yar kasar Sifaniya Garbine Muguruza inda nasarar ta kasance kyauta ta 21 da ta samu a wasa mai mutum daya-daya Ta fara fafatawa a Indian Wells bayan komawa buga tennis - inda ta yi rashin nasara a hannun Venus shekara 17 daga wani lamari da ya sanya su kauracewa wasa - inda daga baya suka fafata a wasan karshe na Wimbledon da US Open a shekarar. Williams ta samu nasarori da dama - inda ta lashe gasar Australian Open a 2003 bayan lashe ta French Open da Wimbledon da kuma US Open a 2002 abu kuma da ya sa aka mata lakabi da 'Serena Slam'. Serena ta yi kasa da mutum 100 da suka fi shahara a duniya a 2006, inda ta koma Melbourne a matsayin na 81 a duniya. Daga baya, Serana mai shekara 20 ta zo ta zarce yayar ta Venus inda ta zamanto ta daya a duniya, mataki kuma da ta rike har na wata 11 inda ta kasance ta uku bayan Steffi Graf da kuma Martina Navratilova, wadanda suka rike matakin na tsawon shekara shida. Sai kuma ta yi nasara kan Lindsay Davenport da Martina Hingis - da aka ayyana su na biyu da na farko a duniya - inda ta riƙe lambar yabon da ta daɗe tana burin samu.

Now, the 40-year-old legend is heading for retirement after almost certainly playing her last match, a three-set defeat to Ajla Tomljanovic at the US Open on ...

“Criticism can bring the best out of you.” “I wouldn’t have won a single title without him and without his backing,” said Williams. It was solid and it wasn’t weak, so we were always able to grow our game.” A couple more days and it would not have been good. She missed three major events and was out for almost a year. Williams, whose husband is Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, twice completed a “Serena Slam” by winning all four major titles in a row.

Williams, who lost possibly her last match on Friday night, made herself felt beyond the game as arguably no player ever has.

When it was over, Venus hugged her downcast sister at the net and said, in her ear, “I love you.” Try forgetting that. I wasn’t there in 2001, when Serena, playing her older sister Venus, anxious and unable to settle in—as she often was against Venus—made batches of unforced errors and lost her second U.S. Even before I was born, it was what I was meant to do and what I was supposed to do and what was chosen for me.” The Times sent a reporter to an obscure tournament in Canada in October, 1995, to cover her first professional match—which she lost badly, to an eighteen-year-old American named Annie Miller. In the seventh game of that set, Serena crushed a return winner to break Andreescu’s serve; then she held her own serve; then she broke Andreescu’s serve again and held once more to even the set at 5–5. There was also, a year later, Serena’s [final](https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/in-her-us-open-victory-bianca-andreescu-shows-the-swagger-that-serena-williams-brought-to-womens-tennis) against Bianca Andreescu, in which she dropped the first set, and fell behind five games to one in the second. The last ball she hit was a forehand into the net, and it was likely the last ball she will ever hit on the women’s tour—she announced, in August, that she was “evolving away from tennis,” and the understanding was that the U.S. As dominant a player as she was—the most dominant the sport has seen—her struggles were also numerous, and absorbing, and, sometimes, spectacular enough to become indelible. She would go on to lose the set, 5–7, and the match, and her last real shot at a twenty-fourth major—but not before driving those on hand to cheer for her to raucous delirium. Serena has played in the main singles draw at the U.S. To be a fan of any athlete is to know the ending and to begin processing it before it arrives. For certain stretches, such as the first games of the second set, Serena struck aces and open-stance backhands and swinging volleys as if time—and giving birth to a daughter, five years ago—had taken nothing from her game. It was Daniel Kahneman, with the American psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, who recognized that, in what and how we remember, there tends to be a cognitive bias at work.

After a spirited run in what was likely her final tennis match, Serena Williams couldn't help but look back fondly at her career after falling 7-5, 6-7 (4), ...

As a result, women's tennis says goodbye to the last dominant force in the sport, with Iga Swiatek the only player showing signs of carrying that torch. She would win the Australian Open for the first time in 2003, with her powerful serve a big reason why. It's become much more balanced, with the level of competition having been raised thanks to the example set by Serena Williams. Serena made her debut at the age of 14 in 1995, but it wasn't until 1999 that she began to make her mark at the top. In 2002, she won at Roland Garros and Wimbledon for the first time. It's been the most incredible ride and journey I've ever been on."

When the 23-time major champion says she's retiring, maybe it's time to believe her – and for her to believe herself.

It was a weight only redoubled by the two strikes against her in American society: being born a woman and being born black. Then a fourth, then a fifth as the match extended past the three-hour mark. Other than winning the whole tournament, it was the perfect way to go out: 15 minutes of pure fight. When Williams won her first of 23 grand slam titles at the 1999 US Open as a 17-year-old, her road to the trophy included five opponents who one day would end up in the Hall of Fame: Kim Clijsters, Conchita Martínez, Monica Seles, Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis. Even as she fielded a congratulatory phone call from President Clinton afterward, it was impossible to fully reckon the extent to which her triumph would shape the perception of female athletes in the new millennium. She will continue to define success on her own terms as she has for nearly three decades in the unsparing public eye as a working-class black woman from Compton who rewrote the record books of a sport predominantly owned, played and watched by affluent white people. [only the latest example of a great champion](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/mar/14/tom-bradys-nfl-return-is-both-understandable-and-potentially-foolish) finding it hard to close the book on the glory days. [Serena Williams](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/serena-williams) Invitational over the course of five days that boasted record attendances and US television ratings – has been so fulfilling. Even in the cathartic aftermath of [Friday night’s third-round defeat](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/sep/02/serena-williams-ajla-tomljanovi-us-open-tennis-third-round-retirement) to Ajla Tomljanović, the sudden deluge of tears seemed to express a finality that she either could not or would not articulate in words. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to do that.” With a marriage to a supportive partner who shares her values, a daughter who just turned five and a venture capital firm that has raised more than $100m, there will be no crisis over her sense of purpose. But these extended farewells almost always end in a messy defeat: as a last act, Friday night’s epic in front of roaring crowd on Arthur Ashe was about as good as it gets.

She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time (behind Margaret Court's 24). Along with her ...

This includes a non-calendar year Grand Slam between the 2009 Wimbledon Championships and the 2010 French Open, which granted the sisters the doubles world No. At the 2017 Australian Open, she won her 23rd major singles title, surpassing Steffi Graf’s Open Era record. Turning professional in 1995, she won her first major singles title at the 1999 US Open.