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The most fascinating and dominating era in women’s tennis is coming to an end! Serena Williams, the most successful tennis player in the open era has decided to “evolve away from tennis”. On Tuesday, she announced her plans to retire from the game after dominating the game for the past 27 years. She will be last seen in the US Open which will be starting on 29th August 2022.
Serena Williams’ Domination in World Tennis
Serene Williams started playing tennis at a young age. Trained under her parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price, she didn’t take much time to be noticed. Although she was under the shadow of her sister Venus Williams for a while, she didn’t take much time to make her presence known. Sooner she became a legendary tennis player, an iconic star, and one of the most influential athletes in the world.
Serena Williams’ started her professional career at the age of 14 in 1995 and won her first Grand Slam in the 1998 Australian Open, the mixed doubles title with Max Mirnyi. She later won French Open 1999 women’s doubles with her sister. Her maiden singles Grand Slam came in the US Open in 1999 where she defeated Martina Hingis and went on to win 22 more Grand Slam titles over her career.
Her 23 titles are the greatest by any player in the open era, male or female. Her 23 Grand Slams are only second to Margaret Court’s 24 titles. She has also won 73 WTA singles titles, 14 doubles Grand Slams and a whopping 4 Olympic Golds (one single and three doubles) as well.
Serena Williams’ Grand Slam Titles
One of the greatest achievements of her career is winning a Career Grand Slam (winning all 4 Grand Slams at least once) in both singles and doubles, the first ever by a tennis player. All her doubles titles have been with her sister Venus Williams.
| GRAND SLAM | SINGLES | DOUBLES | MIXED DOUBLES |
| Australian Open | 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017 | 2001, 2003, 2009, 2010 | – |
| French Open | 2002, 2013, 2015 | 1999, 2010 | – |
| Wimbledon | 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2018 | 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2016 | 1998 |
| US Open | 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 | 1999, 2009 | 1998 |
Important Facts About Her
- Serena Williams started playing tennis at the age of 4.
- She started her professional tennis career in 1995.
- She stayed in the No.1 position of the WTA rankings for a total of 319 weeks, third after Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf.
- She stayed for a record consecutive weeks of 186 weeks as rank no.1 on WTA from February 2013 to September 2016.
- Although she has a Career Slam to her credit, she never won all the Grand slams in the same year.
- Twice she held all the Grand Slam titles to her name from 2002-03 and later in 2014-15. This is called Serena Slam.
- In 2012, she won the Career Golden Slam (Grand Slam and an Olympic Gold) when she won the Olympic Gold for singles and doubles.
- Since 2016, Serene has been the highest-paid woman athlete in the world.
- In 2017, she was the only woman on the Forbes’ List of top 100 highest-paid athletes and moved to 28th position on the same list in 2021.
- She won the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award in 2003, 2010, 2016, and 2018.
Serena Williams’ Personal Life
Serena was born Serena Jameka Williams in Michigan. She won many of her Grand Slam titles defeating her sister Venus Williams. She has only ever played doubles with her sister. Serena has been married to Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder and executive chairman of Reddit, since 2017. Their daughter Olympia was born in the same year. She was 8 weeks pregnant when she won her Australian Open title that year.
