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The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price .
Serena won her first professional singles match against Venus later that year in the final of the Grand Slam Cup. Serena was coming off her first Grand Slam championship at the US Open and defeated her elder sister, and defending champion, 6–1, 3–6, 6–3. Venus was the only top player up to this point that Serena had not yet defeated. [8] .
Oct 8, 2021 · Venus and Serena soon crept into the national spotlight as tennis prodigies, though this was mainly due to the eye-popping efforts of older sister Venus; already crushing the ball at...
Four decades in the making. It’s Serena who leads their head-to-head 19-12 in their 31 clashes, but the first belonged to older sister Venus, 7-6 (4), 6-1, back in the day when the sisters still wore beads in their hair during matches.
Venus and Serena were the first female African American women to win a Grand Slam major in the Open Era and the first Black women to reach No.1 since Althea Gibson dominated amateur tennis in the 1950s after breaking the color barrier in the sport.
Aug 27, 2022 · Aug. 27, 2022. Serena Williams announced this month that she will retire sometime after the United States Open. But 30 years ago, the player now considered one of the greatest...
May 17, 2013 · When Venus and Serena Williams burst onto the lily-white world of tennis, they changed the game and made history: They were sisters. From a poor neighborhood. Who brought unprecedented power to...
