Serena Williams Awards, Achievements And Career Highlights
SERENA
WILLIAMS FACTS
Won the 2003 Wimbledon title for the
second-consecutive year.
By winning the 2003 Australian Open achieved an
historic ‘Serena Slam’ - winning all four Grand Slam tournaments in a row.
Became the #1 ranked player in the world on July
8, 2002 – the first time sisters have both achieved the #1 ranking.
Won the Australian Open 2001 doubles title with
sister Venus to complete a career doubles Grand Slam.
When her sister Venus won 2000 Wimbledon to join
Serena, who won the 1999 US Open, as a Grand Slam winner, it marked the first
time in tennis history that two sisters each won a Grand Slam singles title.
Won the gold medal in doubles at the 2000 Olympics
with her sister Venus, becoming the first sisters to win the Olympic doubles
event, and stretched their doubles match winning streak to 22, where it ended.
From July through October 15, 2000, she or her
sister Venus won eight of the nine tournaments they entered (Serena retired
during the final of the Canadian Open).
Having not won any Sanex WTA TOUR singles titles
previous to 1999, won five including the US Open; also in 1999, won three
doubles titles, including two Grand Slams; earned over $2 million in prize
money and reached a career-high ranking of No. 4 after starting the year at
No. 20.
Seeded seventh, upset No. 1 Martina Hingis, No. 2
Lindsey Davenport and No. 4 Monica Seles en route to her first career Grand
Slam singles title at the 1999 U.S. Open, becoming the lowest seed to win the
women’s title in the Open Era (since 1968), the sixth American woman in the
Open Era to win, and the second black woman ever to win a Grand Slam singles
title (Althea Gibson won five, her last coming at the 1958 U.S.
Championships); in winning seven matches for the title, won four consecutive
three-set matches; also won the doubles title with sister Venus, becoming the
fifth woman in the Open Era to win both singles and doubles in the same year
at the U.S. Open.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
2005 Australian Open (singles) - Champion
2004 China Open (singles) - Champion 2004
NASDAQ-100 Open (singles) - Champion 2003 Wimbledon (singles) -
Champion 2003 Australian Open (singles and doubles) - Champion 2002
Sparkassen Cup (singles) - Champion 2002 Princess Cup (singles) -
Champion 2002 US Open (singles) - Champion 2002 Wimbledon (singles &
doubles) - Champion 2002 French Open (singles) - Champion 2002 Italian
Open (singles) - Champion 2002 Nasdaq-100 Open(singles) - Champion 2002
State Farm Tennis Classic (singles) – Champion 2001 Sanex Championship
(singles) - Champion 2001 US Open (singles) - Finalist 2001 Indian
Wells (singles) - Champion 2001 Australian Open (doubles) -
Champion 2000 Wimbledon (doubles) – Champion 2000 Olympics (doubles) –
Champion 1999 U.S. Open (singles & doubles) – Champion 1999 French
Open (doubles) – Champion 1999 Paris Indoors (singles) – Champion 1999
Indian Wells (singles) – Champion 1999 Los Angeles (singles) –
Champion 1999 Grand Slam Cup (singles) – Champion
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