Serena Williams ‘paved the way’ for mothers to keep playing tennis, says Martina Navratilova
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
Serena Williams is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and a former world No. 1 in singles. (Getty)
What she lacked in height, Serena Williams was more than made up for — and more than just in stature — by the sheer breadth of her world travels, which spanned the world in both her playing days and her coaching and promoting days.
She’s played over 200 times in tournaments from her native South Africa, to Canada and the United States, to Australia and China, and been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
She’s won Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon, the Australian Open, the U.S. Open, the French Open and the Olympics. She’s lost in the finals of the Australian Open and the U.S. Open to No. 1s Maria Sharapova and Maria Kirilenko.
And she’s taken the prize money to go along with it. In 2010, she was ranked third in the world, with $2.7 million in
