Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked singles world No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks.
She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time
Along with her older sister Venus, Serena Williams was coached by her parents Oracene Price and Richard Williams.
Williams is widely considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. The arrival of the Williams sisters is well known in women's professional tennis tours.
She has won the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award four times, and in December 2015 was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine.
In 2021, she was ranked 28th on Forbes' World's Highest-Paid Athletes list. Williams was the world's highest-paid woman athlete in 2016, earning almost $29 million.
She repeated this feat in 2017 when she was the only woman on Forbes' list of the 100 highest-paid athletes, with $27 million.
Williams is married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. They married on November 16, 2017, in New Orleans.
In September 2017, Williams gave birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr, also known as "Olympia".