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Serena Williams: The Queen of Tennis
Serena Williams: The Queen of Tennis
Serena Williams: The Queen of Tennis
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Serena Williams is a world champion professional tennis player. Serena Williams was born in Michigan but grew up in Compton, California. She and her sister Venus Williams were steered towards tennis at a very early age. Both girls were home schooled to maximize the amount of time available for practice. Serena Williams has been ranked number one in the world five times and has earned more prize money than any other female player. As of August 2013, Serena Williams has earned more than $47 million in career prize money. She has won 17 singles Grand Slam titles and thirteen doubles titles with her sister Venus. She won gold medals at the Sydney, Beijing and London Olympics. Williams is one of the most popular endorsement athletes in the world. She earns $15-20 million per year outside of tennis endorsing companies like Nike and Kraft Foods. In 2004, Williams inked a $40 million deal to produce a fashion line with Nike.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXinXii
Release dateJun 2, 2014
ISBN9781304927644
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    Serena Williams - Jane K Allende

    Serena Williams: The Queen of Tennis

    © 2014 by Jane K Allende

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    Early Life

    American tennis player Serena Jameka Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan. The youngest of Richard and Oracene Williams's five daughters, Serena Williams, along with her sister Venus, would eventually dominate the sport at various times throughout her career, capturing 15 Grand Slam singles and 13 Grand Slam doubles titles.

    Serena's father—a former sharecropper from Louisiana determined to see his two youngest girls succeed—used what he'd gleaned from tennis books and videos to instruct Serena and Venus on how to play the game. At the age of 3, practicing on a court not far from the family's new Compton, California, home, Serena withstood the rigors of daily two-hour practices from her father.

    The fact that the family had relocated to Compton was no accident. With its high rate of gang activity, Richard Williams wanted to expose his daughters to the ugly possibilities of life if they did not work hard and get an education. In this setting, on courts that were riddled with potholes and sometimes missing nets, Serena and Venus cut their teeth on the game of tennis and the requirements for persevering in a tough climate.

    By 1991, Serena was 46-3 on the junior United States Tennis Association tour, and ranked first in the 10-and-under division. Sensing his girls needed better instruction to become successful professionals, he moved his family again—this time to Florida. There, Richard let go of some of his coaching responsibilities, but not the management of Serena's and Venus's career. Wary of his daughters burning out too quickly, he scaled back their junior tournament schedule.

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