Serena Williams has a place on Forbes’ list of America’s richest self-made women, at No. 90 with an estimated net worth of $260 million.
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Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked singles world No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times. 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. Williams is widely considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. The arrival of the Williams sisters has been credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women’s professional tennis tour. Serena holds the most combined major titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles among active players, with 39: 23 in singles, 14 in women’s doubles, and two in mixed doubles. She is joint-third on the all-time list and second in the Open Era for total major titles.
Serena won her first major singles title at the 1999 US Open. From the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open, she was dominant, winning all four major singles titles (each time over Venus in the final) to achieve a non-calendar year Grand Slam and the career Grand Slam, known as the “Serena Slam”. The next few years saw her claim two more singles majors, but suffer from injury and decline in form. Beginning in 2007, however, she gradually returned to form despite continued injuries, retaking the world No. 1 singles ranking. Beginning at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, Williams returned to dominance, claiming Olympic gold and becoming the first tennis player to achieve a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles. She won eight out of thirteen singles majors, including all four in a row from 2014–15 to achieve a second “Serena Slam”. At the 2017 Australian Open, she won her 23rd major singles title, surpassing Steffi Graf’s Open Era record.
Serena Williams has a place on Forbes’ list of America’s richest self-made women, at No. 90 with an estimated net worth of $260 million. Williams has more than a dozen corporate partners, and even as her playing schedule has dwindled, with no more than eight tournaments in a year since 2015, she has remained an inescapable presence on television screens, appearing in two separate Super Bowl commercials this year, for Michelob Ultra and Tonal. Williams has investments in more than 60 startups through her firm Serena Ventures, which announced in March 2022 that it had raised an inaugural fund of $111 million.
Williams, who turns 41 in September 2022, has earned $94.6 million in career prize money on the WTA Tour, more than double the next-best mark, the $42.3 million according to Forbes. The tennis ace has more than a dozen corporate partners, and her around $95 million in career prize money is twice as much as any other female athlete has made. Approximately, she earns more than $8 million a year through her tennis career.
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The 40 year old is ranked 608th in the world as of August 2022. She is ranked 410th in the doubles categories as of August 2022.
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