Essay Sample about Serena Williams Biography, Challenges, and Accomplishments

Do you like to play tennis? An African-American tennis player by the name of Serena Williams is a Tennis player who revolutionized women's tennis. We can better understand Serena Williams by learning more about her biography, the challenges that she faced, and her achievements.

Biography

Serena Williams was born on September 26, 1981. She has won 23 grand slam singles titles and won 14 grand slam doubles titles with her sister Venus Williams. She learned tennis from her father, then became a professional tennis player in 1995. Later, she had a daughter with Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the famous app reddit, in 2014. 

Challenges

Serena Williams faced many challenges, such as her right-elbow injury. This caused her to withdraw from the Swedish Open and Rome. Something else that she faced was the many younger tennis players rising to the top of the leaderboards such as Mugurza, Madison Keys, Belinda Bencic, and Eugenie Bouchard. Another one was that she was really pressured during the Wimbledon final which caused her to make three double faults. She helped this by reminding herself of Billie Jean King's quote, “Pressure is privilege.” Lastly, because of her being famous, she got lots of online attention, which made her really worn out mentally. She helped this by repeating Christ Everts quote, “One of every four matches, I'm not motivated.”

Achievements

Serena Williams had many accomplishments, but she was significant to our history because she had 22 grand slam titles in the open era and because she was one of the most dominant tennis players in history. All of her accomplishments include:

Won Wimbledon grand slam singles champion in 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, and 2016

Won US open singles in 1999, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, and 2014

Won Australian open singles in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2015

Won French open singles in 2002, 2013, and 2015

Won Wimbledon doubles in 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2016

Won US open doubles in 1999 and 2009

Won French doubles in 1999 and 2010

Won Olympics doubles gold medal in 2000, 2008, and 2012

Won Olympic singles gold medal in 2012

Won Wimbledon mixed doubles in 1998

Won US mixed doubles in 1998

Was the second african american to win a grand slam title 

Was the oldest person to hold all of the grand slam singles titles (US open in 2014, Wimbledon in 2015, and the Olympics in 2012)

Was the only women (plus Venus Williams and Helen Wills) to win a gold medal in singles or doubles during the same year of the Olympics in 2012 

Was the first team (with Venus) to win three gold medals of women's doubles in 2012

Was associated press female athlete of the year in 2002, 2009, 2013, and 2015

Was best female athlete of the decade in 2009

Was the oldest player to win a grand slam singles title

All in all, now you know all about Serena Williams biography, challenges, and accomplishments. If you find her interesting, you should check out her books ‘My Life: Queen of the Court’ ‘On the Line’ ‘Venus and Serena: Serving from the hip’ ‘Sistertales 2’ and ‘Baby and Me: The First 100 Days’.