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  1. Nov 3, 2024 · Accessed 17 November 2024. Serena Williams is an American tennis player who revolutionized women’s tennis with her powerful style of play and who won more Grand Slam singles titles (23) than any other woman or man during the open era. Learn more about Williams’s life and career, including her various titles.

    • Venus Williams

      Venus Williams, American tennis player who, along with her...

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      The Williams sisters were the first siblings ever to occupy...

    • Maureen Connolly

      Maureen Connolly (born September 17, 1934, San Diego,...

    • Chris Evert

      Chris Evert (born Dec. 21, 1954, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,...

    • Steffi Graf

      Steffi Graf (born June 14, 1969, Brühl, West Germany [now in...

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      Martina Navratilova, Czech American tennis player who...

  2. Sep 4, 2022 · Serena and Venus Williams with ball kids ahead of the Australian Open in Melbourne in 2017. (AAP: Alex Murray)At 30 years old, Shawn Grant is too young to have witnessed the rise of the Williams ...

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  3. Jun 3, 2023 · The numbers alone tell so much: 122 WTA Tour singles titles (73 for Serena, 49 for Venus), including 30 majors. Add to this another 14 in women’s doubles and four in mixed.

  4. Mar 9, 2020 · Serena Williams grew up in Compton, where she and her older sister Venus learned to play tennis on gritty public courts under the strict watch of their father, Richard.But both sisters now belong ...

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  5. Mar 25, 2024 · Serena Williams: The little sister that could. The family Williams origin story is a well-known one: After Richard, their father, watched Virginia Ruzici win the 1978 Roland-Garros title and receive a winner's cheque of $20,000, he set out for his two youngest daughters, Venus and Serena, to become tennis champions themselves.

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  6. Oct 27, 2022 · Measuring the impact of Venus and Serena Williams, two all-conquering sisters from Compton, Los Angeles, is close to impossible. There is a depth and breadth to their stories that is utterly ...

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  8. Oct 8, 2021 · Venus had to deal with Serena's surprising Grand Slam win. Both girls turned professional at age 14, and by the late 1990s, they were transforming women's tennis with their overpowering ...