Serena Williams has signaled that the United States Open that starts later this month might be the tip of her storied occupation. She gained her first Grand Slam — the United States Open — in 1999, when she used to be 17 years previous, beating the top-seeded Martina Hingis. She went directly to grow to be the game’s maximum dominant pressure over the following 20 years.
Serena Williams’s global rating since 1998
Williams first rose to No. 1 in July 2002, at age 20. She stayed No. 1 for 49 weeks.
She stayed No.1 for 186 consecutive weeks from Feb. 2013 to Sept. 2016.
She gave delivery to her daughter in 2017 and returned to tennis in 2018.
Her rating fell underneath 20 in 2006.
She stayed No.1 for 186 consecutive weeks from Feb. 2013 to Sept. 2016.
Williams first rose to No. 1 in July 2002, at age 20. She stayed No. 1 for 49 weeks.
She gave delivery to her daughter in 2017 and returned to tennis in 2018.
Her rating fell underneath 20 in 2006.
Williams first rose to No. 1 in July 2002, at age 20. She stayed No. 1 for 49 weeks.
She stayed No.1 for 186 consecutive weeks from Feb. 2013 to Sept. 2016.
She gave delivery to her daughter in 2017 and returned to tennis in 2018.
Her rating fell underneath 20 in 2006.
Source: Women’s Tennis Association
Over her occupation, Williams spent 319 weeks ranked because the No. 1 participant on this planet by way of the Women’s Tennis Association, together with 186 consecutive weeks from February 2013 to September 2016. Only Steffi Graf (377) and Martina Navratilova (332) have spent extra time as the arena’s top-ranked participant.
So some distance, Williams has gained 73 singles tournaments, her final coming in January 2020 on the ASB Classic in New Zealand. Her choice of match wins ranks 5th all-time, even though she regularly performed some distance fewer occasions than different avid gamers, opting for as an alternative to pay attention to Grand Slams.
Williams’s singles occupation, match by way of match
Source: Women’s Tennis Association
Note: Table does no longer come with the 2022 Canadian Open, which is recently being performed.
Her 23 Grand Slam singles titles, gained over the span of 18 years, ranks 2d in girls’s tennis, one in need of Margaret Court. Seven got here on the Australian Open, 3 on the French Open, seven at Wimbledon and 6 at the United States Open.
Williams’s Grand Slam tournaments
Source: Women’s Tennis Association
Note: 2020 Wimbledon used to be canceled.
Williams by no means gained each Slam in the similar calendar yr, however she held all 4 main titles on the identical time two times, in 2002-03 and in 2014-15 — giving us the time period “Serena Slam.”
She gained her final Grand Slam singles name, the 2017 Australian Open, at 35, whilst pregnant along with her daughter, Alexis. She and Graf are the one two avid gamers in girls’s tennis to have gained all 4 Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic singles gold medal.
This yr’s US Open, which will be Williams’s final, starts Aug. 29.
