Serena Williams
Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and actress who is ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. The Women's Tennis Associationhas ranked her world No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the world No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002, and achieved this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013. As of July 18, 2016, she has been ranked world No. 1 for 179 consecutive weeks, seven weeks shy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth26 September 1981
CitySaginaw, MI
CountryUnited States of America
I figure J-Lo does all these movies and all these videos and all this other stuff...I know I can play tennis and act and do photo shoots and model. I know I can do all that.
Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.
I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.
You can't play well if you don't look good.
I don't want to end my career and then start something, I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing. There's plenty of time after my tennis to definitely go full-time fashion, when I have arthritis and all that fun stuff.
Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.
My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything.
Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.
I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.
I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, this never happened before.
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
I always ask my dad, 'Why wasn't I a lefty?' Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.
What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles.
Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.