Serena Williams has been ranked singles world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks.
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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.[a] 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 Williams defeated No. 1, Hingis in the 1999 US Open finals, to become the second African-American woman, after Althea Gibson in 1958, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament. This was her first ever grand slam title. At the 2002 Wimbledon Championships, Williams won tennis’s oldest championship for the first time in her life, defeating Venus to win a Grand Slam singles title without dropping a set for the first time in her career. This victory earned Williams the world No. 1 ranking for the first time, dethroning her sister and becoming only the third African American woman to hold that ranking. Williams was the third seed at the French Open at Roland Garros, where she claimed her first title thereby defeating her sister Venus in the final to win her second Grand Slam tournament title. Serena faced Venus for the fourth consecutive Grand Slam tournament final in the 2003 Australian Open, defeating her older sister to become the sixth woman in the Open Era to complete a career Grand Slam.
Williams is married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. He proposed to her on December 10, 2016, in Rome. On December 30, 2016, Williams announced their engagement in a Reddit post. They married on November 16, 2017, in New Orleans. Guests at the wedding included Beyoncé, Anna Wintour, Kelly Rowland and Kim Kardashian. She planned to move to San Francisco with Ohanian after the wedding. Their daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian, was born on September 1, 2017, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Serena Williams was born on September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan to Oracene Price and Richard Williams. Both her parents are American tennis coaches and the father of Venus and Serena Williams. She has 6 siblings named Venus Williams, Yetunde Price, Lynda Price, Isha Price, Richard Williams III, Ronner Williams. Serena is the youngest of Price’s five daughters: half-sisters Yetunde, Lyndrea, and Isha Price, and full older sister Venus. She also has at least seven paternal half-siblings.
