Williams sisters

Venus and Serena

Venus

Serena

Highest singles
ranking:

No. 1
(February 25, 2002)

No. 1
(July 8, 2002)

Highest doubles
ranking:

No. 1
(June 7, 2010)

Women's singles titles:

49

73

Women's doubles titles:

22

23

Grand Slam
Women's singles titles:

7
(Wimbledon 2000/01/05/07/08,
US Open 2000/01)

23
(Aus Open 2003/05/07/09/10/15/17,
French Open 2002/13/15,
Wimbledon 2002/03/09/10/12/15/16,
US Open 1999/2002/08/12/13/14)

Grand Slam
Women's doubles titles:

14
(Aus Open 2001/03/09/10,
French Open 1999/2010,
Wimbledon 2000/02/08/09/12/16,
US Open 1999/2009)

Grand Slam mixed
doubles titles:

2
(Aus Open 1998,
French Open 1998)

2
(Wimbledon 1998,
US Open 1998)

Summer Olympics
Singles titles:

Gold (Sydney 2000)

Gold (London 2012)

Summer Olympics
Doubles titles:

Gold (Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008, London 2012)

Fed Cup
titles:

1
(1999)

Plays:

Right-handed
(two-handed backhand)

Career Earnings:

$42,280,540 (2nd)

$94,518,971 (1st)

The Wiliams sisters are two American professional tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time major singles champion, and Serena Williams (b. 1981), a 23-time major singles champion, both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price.

The Williams sisters partake in “one of the elite ‘country club’ sports in America,” a sport that was not—along with many others—open to female participation in the past (Smith & Hattery, 75).^[1] When the sport was introduced as a form of leisurely activity in the United States, “many clubs would not allow women to be members” (Smith & Hattery, 76). Furthermore, their status as successful African American athletes within a historically White sport—in spite of openly racist backlash they encountered during their careers—has been credited with opening up the sport of tennis to a truly multicultural audience.^[2]

Both sisters have been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association at the world No. 1 position in both singles and doubles. In 2002, after the French Open, Venus and Serena Williams were ranked world No. 1 and No. 2 on singles, respectively, marking the first time in history that sisters occupied the top two positions. On 21 June 2010, Serena and Venus again held the No. 1 and No. 2 rankings spots in singles, respectively, some eight years after first accomplishing this feat. At the time, Serena was three months shy of her 29th birthday and Venus had just celebrated her 30th birthday.

There was a noted professional rivalry between the sisters in singles — between the 2001 US Open and the 2017 Australian Open, they contested nine major finals. They became the first two players, female or male, to contest four consecutive major singles finals, from the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open; Serena famously won all four to complete the first of two "Serena Slams" (non-calendar year Grand Slams). Between 2000 and 2016, they collectively won 12 Wimbledon singles titles (Venus five, and Serena seven). Nonetheless, they remain very close, often watching each other's matches in support, even after one of them had been knocked out of a tournament.

By winning the 2001 Australian Open doubles title, they became the fifth pair of women to complete the career Grand Slam in doubles, and the first pair to complete the career Golden Slam in doubles. At the time, Venus and Serena were only 20 and 19 years old, respectively. Since then, they went on to add another two Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics. Moreover, the duo achieved a non-calendar year Grand Slam in doubles between 2009 Wimbledon and 2010 Roland Garros, which made them the co-No. 1 doubles players on 7 June 2010. Their last major doubles title came at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships.

Both players won four gold medals at the Olympics, one each in singles and three in doubles— all won together— the most of any tennis players. Venus also won a silver in mixed doubles at the 2016 Rio Olympics. As a duo, they completed the double career Golden Slam in doubles. Between the two of them, they have completed the Boxed Set, winning all four major events in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles; they split the four mixed doubles titles in 1998.

Winner — Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (14–0)
Olympic Gold (3)
WTA Tour Championships (0–0)
Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (2–0)
Premier (2–1)
International (1–0)

Finals by Surface
Hard (10–1)
Grass (7–0)
Clay (3–0)
Carpet (2–0)

Result	No.	Date	Tournaments	Surface	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	February 23, 1998	Oklahoma City, United States (1)	Hard	Cătălina Cristea Kristine Kunce	7–5, 6–2
Win	2.	October 12, 1998	Zürich, Switzerland (1)	Carpet	Mariaan de Swardt Elena Tatarkova	5–7, 6–1, 6–3
Win	3.	February 15, 1999	Hanover, Germany (1)	Carpet	Alexandra Fusai Nathalie Tauziat	5–7, 6–2, 6–2
Win	4.	May 24, 1999	French Open, Paris, France (1)	Clay	Martina Hingis Anna Kournikova	6–3, 6–7^(2–7), 8–6
Loss	1.	August 8, 1999	San Diego, U.S. (1)	Hard	Lindsay Davenport Corina Morariu	4–6, 1–6
Win	5.	August 30, 1999	US Open, New York City, U.S. (1)	Hard	Chanda Rubin Sandrine Testud	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
Win	6.	June 26, 2000	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom (1)	Grass	Julie Halard-Decugis Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 6–2
Win	7.	September 18, 2000	Summer Olympics, Sydney, Australia (1)	Hard	Kristie Boogert Miriam Oremans	6–1, 6–1
Win	8.	January 15, 2001	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia (1)	Hard	Lindsay Davenport Corina Morariu	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
Win	9.	June 24, 2002	Wimbledon, London, U.K. (2)	Grass	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	6–2, 7–5
Win	10.	January 13, 2003	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia (2)	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
Win	11.	July 5, 2008	Wimbledon, London, U.K. (3)	Grass	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6–2, 6–2
Win	12.	August 17, 2008	Summer Olympics, Beijing, China (2)	Hard	Anabel Medina Garrigues Virginia Ruano Pascual	6–2, 6–0
Win	13.	January 30, 2009	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia (3)	Hard	Ai Sugiyama Daniela Hantuchová	6–3, 6–3
Win	14.	July 4, 2009	Wimbledon, London, U.K. (4)	Grass	Samantha Stosur Rennae Stubbs	7–6^(7–4), 6–4
Win	15.	August 2, 2009	Stanford, U.S. (1)	Hard	Chan Yung-jan Monica Niculescu	6–4, 6–1
Win	16.	September 14, 2009	US Open, New York City, U.S. (2)	Hard	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–2, 6–2
Win	17.	January 29, 2010	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia (4)	Hard	Cara Black Liezel Huber	6–4, 6–3
Win	18.	May 15, 2010	Madrid, Spain (1)	Clay	Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta	6–2, 7–5
Win	19.	June 3, 2010	French Open, Paris, France (2)	Clay	Květa Peschke Katarina Srebotnik	6–2, 6–3
Win	20.	July 7, 2012	Wimbledon, London, U.K. (5)	Grass	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	7–5, 6–4
Win	21.	August 5, 2012	Summer Olympics, London, U.K. (3)	Grass	Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká	6–4, 6–4
Win	22.	July 9, 2016	Wimbledon, London, U.K. (6)	Grass	Tímea Babos Yaroslava Shvedova	6–3, 6–4

^ SMITH, EARL, and ANGELA J. HATTERY. “VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS: Traversing the Barriers of the Country Club World.” A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes, edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen, University Press of Mississippi, 2013, pp. 72–91. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24hvp6.9. Accessed 28 Sept. 2023.
^ Aaron Morrison (26 August 2022). "Serena's example: Tennis icon's impact felt in Black America". Associated Press.

[1] SMITH, EARL, and ANGELA J. HATTERY. “VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS: Traversing the Barriers of the Country Club World.” A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes, edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen, University Press of Mississippi, 2013, pp. 72–91. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24hvp6.9. Accessed 28 Sept. 2023.

[2] Aaron Morrison (26 August 2022). "Serena's example: Tennis icon's impact felt in Black America". Associated Press.

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