Serena Williams (1981- ) is a world famous American tennis player. She is the younger sister of Venus Williams and one of the best female tennis players in the world. She and her sister are the best black women tennis players since Althea Gibson in the 1950s.
So far Serena Williams has won eight Grand Slam events:
- Australian Open: 2003, 2005, 2007
- French Open: 2002
- Wimbledon: 2002, 2003
- U.S. Open: 1999, 2002
Starting in 2002 she won four Grand Slams in a row. That was four years ago and no one, male or female, has been able to do that since.
Serena also won an Olympic gold medal at the 2000 games in Sydney in women’s doubles with her sister.
She hurt her knee in 2003. It kept her out of the Olympics in 2004. Only in 2007 does she seem to be getting back to her old form.
Some have wondered if she is still serious about tennis: she has been getting into acting and fashion designing.
She has a line of Puma and Nike shoes. She also has her own line of clothing called Aneres (“Serena” written backwards). She has a degree in fashion design, so it is more than just a passing interest for her.
The story goes that before she was born her father was watching tennis on television. When he found out the how much money tennis players could win, he saw right then that it was his family’s road to riches.
He had two daughters with his wife and trained them from an early age to play tennis. They lived in a rough part of Los Angeles, but he did not let that stop him. He was tireless and thorough and supported his daughters all the way. In time they became the best tennis players aged ten and under in California.
At that point he could not do much more for them, so he moved the family to Florida where the two could be trained by Rick Macci, who has also trained Jennifer Capriati.
By age 14 Serena was playing professional tennis. Three years later in 1998 she was in the top 100. A year after in 1999 she won her first Grand Slam event. In 2002 she was ranked number one.
Having to play against her sister has been the hardest part of it all.
She is strong for a woman tennis player and probably has the best serve. She gives the other side no rest.
When asked at the Australian Open in 2007 if she was fit enough, she said, “I could lose 20 pounds and I’m still going to have these knockers and I’m going to have this ass, and that’s just the way it is.” She is 1.78 metres tall (5 foot 10) and has a weight of 65 kg (143 pounds).
Just from tennis alone she has made $18 million (4 million crowns) so far.
She has three older half sisters. In 2003 the oldest of them, Yetunde, was murdered.
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You go Serena! She’s amazingly talented young woman with a knack for tennis, designing clothes and a great model. Keep on highlighting these deserving young women such as Venus and Serena.
Stephanie
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Serena Williams got an off the chart azz, but sorry she is fugly. Every woman with a dunker is not fine. geez raise the standard
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I never said she was beautiful – just thick.
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I like her, even her face.
I think because she is in such incredible physical condition most men would really be intimidated by that. That’s OK. Personally, she still makes my list of beautiful hotties.
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It is a damn shame that in this day & age, people still refuse to give brown & dark skin Black women the compliment of “Beautiful!” It is absolutely unbelievable! Serena.ia a beautiful woman who happens to be a superior athlete. Get over the white and light skin mentality my people. That’s why so many of them break their neck to darken themselves. It’s a freakin broken record at this point. I know deep down, most of these complexion conscious people wish they really were darker.
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i never thought beauty was limited by skin color…it has to do with if a face is balanced in appearance..and therefore pleasing to the eye.if the eyes are basically same width, and the nose in proportion to the eyes and lips etc..then it looks good
A wide nose and large full lips set in a face with high checkbones and balanced out by some beautiful dark large almond shaped eyes is asthetically pleasing…and therefore beautiful.
As long as the left and right sides of face are mostly the same….then it looks nice.
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What’s skin color got to do with anything?
(That comment reveals a lot about that poster.)
If Aba don’t find her to be especially beautiful, facially, then he just doesn’t find her to be that beautiful. That’s all. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Hell, judging by all of the action that Serena gets, Aba may be in the minority. ;p
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mynameismyname – are you referring to my comment above? because if so I think you misunderstood me. I was referring to D Mobiles comment #5. I was agreeing with Dmobile that beauty shouldnt be defined or limited by skin color. In fact scientific studiess seem to link beauty to how the basic featurs are laid out on the face. they measured the different dementions of the face and them do some sort of scientific computation similar to abagonds WHR. Some of the worlds most beautiful people end up with roughly the same score, regardless of race or skin color…beauty is somehow linked to balanced features on the face. Our mind recognizes it as good genes and therefor good to breed with. The perception of “attractive” at a subconcious level being linked to procreation.
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She has an amazing body, no doubt, but to me she does not have a beautiful face. Clearly not everyone agrees with that. I can understand that. In my case, knowing me, I doubt it has anything to do with skin colour – it is most likely her eyes.
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I agree, Abagond.
No, Davida, my comment was a reply to D Mobley/NYC. I didn’t even notice your reply to theirs. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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gotcha – Although I think different skin tones can be beautiful. A deep chocolate color with golden undertones is amazing and I am jealous of women with that skin because it looks good with some of my favorite colors of clothes. I look sickly and washed out if I wear them. I also think the porcelin color of some women to be beautiful and soft and delicate (sp?). I could go on from there but honestly havent had any coffee yet and am not thinking clearly this morning. Skin color can be an aspect of beauty. the things that make a women beautiful are as plentiful as the stars and as varied as the men who love them. I never thought my skin was beautiful until
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ooops – my son hit the submit button
I was saying until a friend pointed out how it looks contrasted against the butterflies tattoo’d on my shoulder (as I am prone to freckles which I was teased for as a child)
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It is sad (still) in this day and time that people are continuously ‘hating’ for inmature reasons. Serena (like a lot of professional/celebrities)has it going on and even though everyone is entitled to their own opinion,she’s (and still is) making her ‘mark’in the world and doing it with class and style!The energy people take to criticize those who are making a difference in life need to apply that same energy to their own lives and maybe you can make a difference also.Grow up and observe the essence of a person’s (female’s) character & spirituality in lieu of the physical & you might discover something like seeing the forest instead of the trees!
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Both the Williams Sisters are AMAZING!! Forget the haters!!!
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Looks fine to me!
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…and her sister, too!
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aloha I would LICK her ENTIRE BODY clean after EVERY match & EVERY nite just 2 HOLD her & KISS her! mahalo aloha hb
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Good Afternoon. Recently, someone sent a picture of Serena Williams to my e-mail. It was taken from FaceBook.com. As a mature gentleman i have always enjoyed the thick,voluptuos curves on a woman. And when it comes to thick,Serena completely captures that title. And even though i have heard many dissrespectful things said about her looks from Black,Spanish,Asian, Indian,White,and Middle eastern men. I stand firm on my opinion about her beautiful features. Her body seems muscular and tight. And when she wearing a new outfit, all eyes are on the Legs,Ass,Arms, and her game. Just read what Hawaii Bob wrote. He gets deep for Serena.
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Now that what a brother needs,you know something with some bounce back and shake to it.not just skin and bone.(bone on bone hurts)
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I never said she was beautiful – just thick.
Serena is a stunningly beautiful woman, once again we do not need validation from whites to uphold this paragon of beauty. One site I used to frequent had a contest as to who black men “liked” more , Kim Kardashian or Serena Williams.. Needless to say , Serena won hands down.The white person who created this attempt to “obfuscate” black men with Kim K was very dissappointed when his machinations didn’t turn out as planned. So this is a situation where whites meddlesome ways in trying to influence us to believe that Serena is manly-looking and unattractive ain’t workin’.. Serena is a stunningly beautiful black woman.And Black men and women love her. Save ur machinations, white race.
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I’m wondering who could look at the first two pictures in the second row and NOT see a beautiful woman? Any of the pictures, really, show a woman who is physically very striking, but those two in particular conform closely to what we in the West typically agree is beautiful: long, flowy hair, nice skin, beautiful smile, incredible figure…What, specifically is lacking there? Just curious…
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Serena is beautiful and talented. There is no other way to describe her. End of argument.
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Aloha I would marry her & VENUS just 2 kiss them on the lips hb aloha : )
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Serena is an awesome athlete.
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Serena Williams will never ever forget 9/11 with her stunning loss at Flushing Measows against Vinci, an unseeded player.
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Serena is the G.O.A.T. Greatest of all time.
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So Serena’s “rival” Maria Sharapova, who hasn’t beaten her in ages, (but famously makes more money off the court) has tested +ve for a banned substance that was added to the list this year after being on the “watch” list last year. Sponsors have already started to distance themselves from Sharapova starting with Nike, Tag Heuer and Porsche.
Sharapova’s own account is that she had been taking the substance, meldonium, since 2006 for medical reasons and didn’t realize that it had become a banned substance. However, other atheles have been testing +ve for this including a couple Russian speed skaters (Pavel Kulizhnikov and Semion Elistratov).
Obviously not directly related to Serena but I thought it was interesting general information related to her sport.
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^@ Origin
Well particularly since Serena’s detractors seem to spend so much time accusing her of drugging and being on steroids. To my knowledge Serena has not tested positive for a controlled substance.
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This was Serena’s response when asked about the Sharapova situation:
Serena:
“Like everyone else, most people were surprised and shocked,” she said. “But most people are happy with the fact she was upfront with what she had done in terms of what she had neglected. With that being said, she’s taking responsibility, which she was ready to do.”
And when asked how she felt about playing a player she now knows was using PED she said:
“I don’t think I’m the best person to ask that question,”
Presumably because she’s beaten her so many times it really didn’t matter.
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@King
She hasn’t to my knowledge either but that doesn’t stop people from making many accusations. I don’t have anything personal against Maria Sharapova but I have to admit I’m deriving a little schadenfreude from this situation. Especially in light of the glee with which some commentators note that Sharapova is more marketable than Serena and makes more money through sponsorships because she’s “pretty” (aka, white, slender and blonde) despite being dominated by Serena for a decade.
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I am glad it was Sharapova and not Serena because if it was the internet would be broken. You know if it was Serena and she had just taken NyQuil for a cold the lame stream media would eviscerate her.
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Speaking of big OOPS, I’m wondering if the mainstream media is deliberately trying to remain on the down-low regarding Denver’s SUPERBOWL quarterback, Peyton Manning’s lowdown scandals that has somehow remained meticulously off the radar for a great many years??
Is Peyton, the Superbowl hero, really that squeaky clean all American guy that companies like Poppa John and Nationwide want us to believe he is?
Or is it only Black professional athletes that are routinely thrown under the bus, white athletes are usually protected?
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Ha! And Serena trounced, multiple times, Sharapova, who was doped on peds for ten years.
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A lying and cheating dope-head took Maldonium, a performance enhancing drug to treat phantom diabetes, prescribed for patients with angina and myocardiac infarcation only to be administered at the maximum, six weeks, not ten years. It is a banned substance in the country she resides in(US). So for ten years she “mistakenly” imported (illegally?) from Latvia for a condition she did not have.
As the highest paid tennis player in the world (not the best) it fell squarely on her shoulders to know whats what. No excuses. Serena was gracious when she said Sharapova was courageous in making a bold move by ” taking responsibility, which she was ready to do.” .
That was a “the dog ate my homework” lame excuse. She knew exactly what she was doing: she is trying to inveigle herself out of being caught out, with her expensive PR team. How is it that her highly paid medical team had not informed her months before ( September) that the peds for phantom diabetes was going to be banned?
How undeserving she is. She earns $30 million dollars a year and she could not even touch her I-phone to check one of the most important official e-mails.
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My post sound ambiguous, I am talking about Maria Sharapova.
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Crazy Sharapova is one of the highest paid yet she is half the athlete Serena is and all the hateful vitriol Serena gets from haters she remains resilient and now that Sharapova has been exposed Serena is gracious in her words toward Sharapova in her dilemma.
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Maria Sharapova will cry her white woman tears and toss her blonde hair back and all will be forgiven and forgotten.
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@ Mary Burrell
“Maria Sharapova will cry her white woman tears and toss her blonde hair back and all will be forgiven and forgotten.”
Yes, that was my immediate thought when I caught this on the news. Although to be fair, there would have to be some penallty. I foresee a mitigated ban, not the four years mandated for contravening the prohibitions set by WADA.
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@taotesan: It will be a slap on the wrist.
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Mary,
you know what’s really sad…
Maria was taking that drug for 10 years and STILL could not beat Serena !
if anything, the she should be embarrassed that despite all the extra help, she couldn’t bring down her nemesis on the court– which is what mattered to her the most.
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At that level, she should have been scrupulous, if Sharapova had any integrity to her sport.
I guess the reason for me commenting, is that I am dead-set against taking banned substances in sport. It should be an even and fair playing field. There is no excuse at all for a sportsman taking substances inadvertently or not. In my brief career as power lifter, I belonged to a drug-tested federation, I would receive an e-mail timeously from my federation with WADA’s annual list of prohibited substances.
One had to be scrupulous what touched one’s lips and entered one’s body.
For heavens to Betsy, when i had a cough, cold or flu I had to quadruple check the medication. I had my coach suspended from the federation for trying to foist steroids on me. When I had to have an operation, I had informed the doctors and anaesthetists, and they dispensed medication and anaesthesia in accordance with the WADA list . And this was only at amateur level. I left competitive power lifting and bodybuilding because of the ASSOCIATION of steroids and the culture rife with banned substance abuse.
(My Olympic prediction: Serena Williams will win the Finals this year again.)
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@Linda: Yes that’s where the irony is she took something that was supposed to enhance her performance and she still lost to Serena 18 times I have read. She needs to take the walk of shame.
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Reminds me of Lance Armstrong.
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” …….she still lost to Serena 18 times”!
ROTFWL!
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Serena Williams is objectively a better athlete – at tennis – than Maria Sharapova. This was proved again and again in the various field encounters they both had along all those years.
But, curiously, for the USA society at large, Maria Sharapova is subjectively a “better person” as judged by the money she was able to amass, which is more than Williams‘s.
I wonder why the better athlete is not also the richest person, between the two.
Who knows?
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@Linda, Taotesan, Mary
That’s the funniest part of the whole thing. She had help and was still losing to her rival. Even though the drug was not banned prior to 2016, WADA eventually banned it because usage was going up across the board and they felt it gave performance advantages.
Here’s the document listing the 2016 changes to the prohibited substance list: https://wada-main-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/files/wada-2016-prohibited-list-summary-of-modifications-en.pdf
It’s just a couple pages. These are the sections pertaining to Sharapova’s drug:
“Meldonium (Mildronate) was added because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance. ”
Also:
“Meldonium was removed from the Monitoring Program and added to the
Prohibited List.”
During Sharapova’s press conference she said that she was taking “Mildronate” and she didn’t realize that Meldonium was the same thing but the Wada document refers to it by both names. Furthermore, it was being monitored for some time before it became banned so she should have been on notice that she might have to stop using it or risk a +ve result.
I don’t believe her that she was taking it for a decade for legitimate health reasons. It’s drug for heart disease so you wouldn’t expect so many elite athletes to be heart patients. Quite a few of them, from figure skaters, to speed skaters, to long distance runners have been caught with it in recent times.
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She used Mildronate or Meldonium as a performance enhancing drug, not for any “heart” or diabetic problems.She would have had to import it illegally into the US. Whatever her story is, she abused it to give her an edge. (which did not help her one bit against Serena). What other substances has she been taking
(to mask the Meldonium)? She did not think she would get caught out.
Since she had “heart problems” she should have declared that on Therapeutic Use Exemption, which may given her permission to take the needed medicine.
@Origin
As it took you only a few seconds to download the WADA document, so it would have her.
I do not believe her or feel sorry for her in the least.
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Perhaps if Sharapova scored better drugs she might not have lost to Serena 18 times.
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@Mary, taotesan, Linda, Origin, King and munubantu
I see I’m not the only person howling with laughter over Sharapova taking banned performance enhancers for ten years and still not being able to beat Serena!
Sharapova is probably too arrogant to be ashamed.
Too funny!
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Origins words: “but I have to admit I’m deriving a little schadenfreude from this situation”.
I wonder if she felt a little like Hitler did at the Munich Games, when Jesse Owens just became the fastest man on the planet?
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Doping in sports is as common as it is in one’s day to day life.
Coffee and aspirin before events render the same effect as many banned drugs.
I’m a fan of both Serena and Maria – they are both attractive only in different ways. (Being a Bompton girl, Serena automatically gets bonus points from me.)
I’m not even mad at Maria’s fans – I understand, I tried to imagine excuses for Marion Jones after her scandal.
I’m not sure that Sharapova is as bad as Lance Armstrong (I was more of a Greg Lemond fan anyway) or Barry Bonds (I am a fan – he’s an IE guy), or A-Rod but the girl KNEW that she was breaking the rules.
Serena said what she was supposed to say. The Williams sisters have continued to handle the stress of their success in spite of how they are treated.
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“Coffee and aspirin before events render the same effect as many banned drugs.”
Well … they should take caffeine and aspirin instead of banned substances. I wonder why none of them thought of that.
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I’ll give Maria one thing though. While the announcement of her failed test had the character of a carefully planned PR exercise, it was a far better move than the repeated dishonest denials of Armstrong and Marion Jones.
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From Serena’s Facebook status today.
“Today I asked my 18 year old nephew (to be clear he’s black) to drive me to my meetings so I can work on my phone #safteyfirst. In the distance I saw cop on the side of the road. I quickly checked to see if he was obliging by the speed limit. Than I remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend. All of this went through my mind in a matter of seconds. I even regretted not driving myself. I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew. He’s so innocent. So were all “the others”
I am a total believer that not “everyone” is bad It is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives.”
“Why did I have to think about this in 2016? Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted billions of lives? But I realized we must stride on- for it’s not how far we have come but how much further still we have to go.”
“I than wondered than have I spoken up? I had to take a look at me. What about my nephews? What if I have a son and what about my daughters?”
As Dr. Martin Luther King said ” There comes a time when silence is betrayal”.
I
Won’t
Be
Silent
Serena
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@michaeljonbarker
Thanks for sharing Serena’s comment.
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