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The successful life story of Serena Williams, who ended her tennis career

In the third year of her career, when the calendars were showing the year 2002, she managed to become the number 1 in the world and repeated this success five more times. She won 39 Grand Slam titles during her career. While 23 of these championships were in singles, 14 were in doubles and 2 were in mixed doubles.

She was born on September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States of America.

Launched as the best tennis player the United States has ever produced, Serena Williams' career is full of success.

Williams, the number 1 racket of women's tennis, declared to herself that she took Martina Navratilova as an example.

Williams, who played or won the finals in many tournaments throughout her career, also has a sister who is a professional tennis player like herself. Her sister Venus Williams is also a very successful tennis player.

Along with names such as Williams, Martina Navratilova, Stefi Graff, Margaret Court, Martina Hingis, Monica Seles, Maria Sharapova, she is called one of the best names in women's tennis history.

She also has the distinction of being the highest-paid athlete in women. Serena Williams has managed to put an amount of approximately 68 million dollars in her pocket.

Serena Williams, who is 1.75 meters tall, has the distinction of being the youngest professional female athlete in this field when she was only 14 years old.

Serena Williams, who performed better than left-handers despite using her right hand, has also attracted serious attention in this respect.

Williams, who became professional in 1995, rose to number one in the world for the first time in 2002 and continued to maintain its position in this field as of 2015.

Known as the 'Queen of Courts', Serena Williams has achieved serious success by winning the Grand Slam tournaments 19 times in women's singles and 13 times in doubles and twice in mixed doubles.

With 19 Grand Slams, she won in singles, she became the 4th most successful female athlete ever in the world. If she wins 6 more Grand Slams, she will have a chance to be in the first place.

Williams also won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics held in England. In this way, she contributed to the United States being the Olympic champion overall.

Williams has won a total of 6 times at the Australian Open in singles.

Williams, who reached the happy ending 2 times in the French Open, became the most successful athlete in the history of tennis in the United States, having won the championship 6 times in the US Open and 5 times in Wimbledon.

Williams, who has a winning percentage of 86.76 in her career, is also the 5th in the world in this field. The best rating belongs to Martina Navratilova, who has a percentage of 98%.

Williams, who stopped fighting in doubles, is currently ranked 128th in the world rankings.

She has 23 Grand Slam titles and three Olympic gold medals in women's doubles and one Olympic gold medal in women's singles.

Serena Williams married internet entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian on November 16, 2017. Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. (d.1 September 2017) They have a daughter named.

She became the champion by defeating her older sister Venus Williams in the women's singles final at the Australian Open, which she attended while pregnant in 2017. After giving birth to a daughter on September 1, 2017, Serena Williams decided not to participate as she was not ready for the Australian Open, which started on January 15, 2018.

SERENA WILLIAMS' GAME STYLE

Serena Williams is a player known for her toughness in her attacking strokes. Apart from her effective serves, Serena excels at her opponents with her heavy forehand, her controlled hits both in the back line and in front of the net, and finishing voles. Serena Williams is cited as the most important practitioner of physics-based power tennis in history, according to many authorities.

The strongest aspect of Serena Williams can be shown as her extraordinary mental strength. Serena, who has turned many important matches in her career, has the title of the only player in the history of tennis to win three separate grand slam tournaments by saving match points on the way to the championship.

FAREWELL

5 SEPTEMBER 2022

The legendary name of the tennis world, Serena Williams, lost her last fight and said goodbye to the US Open, ending her career. After Serena William's farewell, tears flooded.

40-year-old US racquet Serena Williams rewrote the history of women's tennis with her 27-year brilliant professional career.

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