![]() ![]() "I'm just beginning," she said Sunday with a smile. The 40-year-old Williams has not played in a competitive match since her injury, and was tabbed as a wild-card selection for the Grand Slam earlier this week. The 4-year-old tiny tot showed off her seriously. The 41-year-old gave a tearful goodbye to fans after her third-round loss to Ajla Tomljanovic at the U.S. Published on Janu07:44 PM Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Olympia Ohanian is following in mom Serena Williams ' famous footsteps. She's being touted as the best female athlete and American tennis player ever, male or female, with more singles titles than Pete Sampras (14), Andre Agassi (eight) and John McEnroe (seven). Williams has sent mixed messages about her future in tennis. With 18 Slam titles, 13 in doubles and gold medals in three Olympic games, her absolute domination in women's tennis in the last decade is hardly questionable, but her legacy has gone far beyond that. to Testud 62 26 97 held 2mp, and Roland Garros) and 2r twice made Top 10 debut on April 5 (after Miami rose from No.11 to No.9) and Top 5 debut on September 13 (after US Open rose from No.6 to No.4) V.Williams won Oklahoma. to V.Williams in final) QF twice reached 3r twice (Australian Open - l. "I was just a kid with a dream and a racket living in Compton." V.Williams in final) runner-up at Miami (l. ![]() "I never dreamed that I could be compared to Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova," Williams said after she tied them for 18 Slams. Serena collected $4 million in prize money with Sunday's win, surpassing $60 million in career earnings, and accepted the victory in the most gracious way. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Federer is the tennis player with the record of consecutive weeks as number one Serena has the same record, with 186 consecutive weeks, shared by Steffi Graf. "I thought, 'I make $56,000 in a year and she gets 40 to play for four days,'" he said. Richard Williams said he decided to make tennis players out of his daughters when he saw a female player winning a $40,000 check on TV. Serena Williams has shared a video clip of her 3-year-old daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., perfecting her swing on the court, with the help of coach Patrick Mouratoglou. Open to come true so his friends could see their matches from the coveted box seats and know that anything is possible. Venus, left, and Serena Williams pose with their gold medals after winning the Womens Doubles Tennis Final at the Olympic Games in Sydney on Sept. ![]() He wanted Venus and Serena's dreams of winning at Wimbledon and the U.S. In the video, their father Richard Williams tells how he wanted tennis to be a ticket out of the Los Angeles-area Compton ghettos for his daughters. ![]()
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