Serena Williams net worth
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What is Serena Williams’ net worth, salary and professional income?
Serena Williams is a world champion professional tennis player with a net worth of US$250 million. Many people consider her to be one of the best female tennis players of all time. She is the highest paid female player.
In the most recent year, Serena earned US$30-40 million from on-court revenue and endorsements. For example, between June 2019 and June 2020, Serena made 35 million U.S. dollars, of which approximately 20 million U.S. dollars came from endorsements.
early life
Serena Jameka Williams was born on September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan, but spent her childhood in Compton, California. She and her sister Venus Williams started learning tennis at a very young age. Both girls go to school at home to make the most of their time for practice. Her father Richard Williams and mother Alison Price served as her official coaches. Other mentors helped her learn the sport when she was young, including Richard Williams, who later founded Venus and Serena Williams Tennis/Tutorial Academy. When Serena was nine years old, she and her family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, so that she could enter Rick March’s tennis academy. In 1995, their father pulled their daughters out of March’s academy and re-taken over as their official coach.
Profession
Serena Williams has ranked first in the world eight times and has won more prize money than any other female tennis player in history. At the time of writing, Williams’ career bonus has exceeded $90 million. Together with her sister Venus Williams, she won 23 singles Grand Slam titles and 14 doubles titles. She also won gold medals at the Sydney, Beijing and London Olympics.
In 1995, 14-year-old Williams participated in her first professional game. In the 1997 Ameritech Cup, Williams, ranked 304, defeated the 7th and 4th players in the semifinals, causing a sensation. These victories boosted her career, and in 1997 she finished in 99th place.
The following year witnessed many high-profile victories, including doubles titles in major tournaments such as Wimbledon and the US Open. However, her first singles title is still far away. In 1999, Williams began to show her early dominance, defeating a series of top players, and won her first Grand Slam singles tournament-the US Open.
Serena Williams continued to maintain his dominance in the first few years of the 2000s, eventually ranking first in 2002. She also won three Grand Slam titles that year: the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. She outshone her sister Venus in the finals of each game. In 2003, she won her fourth Grand Slam title at the Australian Open. This allowed her to win all four Grand Slam titles at the same time, which she called the “Serena Grand Slam”. She will accomplish this feat again in the 2014-15 Grand Slam season.
In the following years, she struggled with health and personal issues, including knee surgery and the death of her half-sister Yetunde. Although she continued to win games, her ranking fell out of the top 10. This made many in the tennis world think that she and her sister Venus are no longer the powerful forces they once were. However, by 2008, Williams had returned to the top of the list and won a series of Grand Slam tournaments.
In 2011, health problems made a comeback. That year, the doctor found a blood clot in one of her lungs. She accepted the remedy, leading many people to wonder if she would return to the sport. However, the following year, she won the Grand Slam again and won her first women’s singles gold medal at the 2012 Olympics. She continued to play at the 2012 U.S. Open, the 2013 French, Australian and U.S. Opens, the Wimbledon Open in the same year, the Wimbledon Open in 2014 and 2015, and the Australian Open in 2016. Won the championship at Wimbledon. Facts in 2018 proved to be difficult years for Serena, losing twice in the US Open and Wimbledon.
Even while battling injuries and taking time off to become a parent, Serena Williams is still the dominant force in women’s tennis. She holds multiple records, including her 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
endorsement
Williams is one of the most popular endorsement athletes in the world. Except for tennis endorsement companies such as Nike and Kraft Foods, her annual income is US$1.5-20 million. In 2004, Williams and Nike signed a $40 million contract to jointly produce a fashion collection.
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Radicalism
Williams uses her social media as a medium to support different causes, especially Black Lives Matter and the LGBT community. She is also passionate about gender equality on and off the court and speaks out about her struggles as a woman in the tennis world. She has won many awards for her radicalism, and even won the President’s Award of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Charity
As we all know, Serena and Venus will go to the hospital and play tennis to raise funds for the McDonald’s House charity. They prepared the entire ESPN special program for their charity journey in 2004 and 2005. Serena founded the Serena Williams Foundation, which provides college scholarships to underprivileged students. The foundation also helped fund the construction of Serene Williams Middle School in Matuni, Kenya. In addition, the foundation and “Hands of Jamaica” built a salt marsh primary school for children in the Diocese of Trelawney, Jamaica.
Serena works closely with Big Brothers Big Sisters in Greater Los Angeles and has served as UNICEF’s International Goodwill Ambassador since 2011. Serena and Venus collaborate at the Williams Sisters Foundation and work together on charitable projects. They teamed up to establish the Yetunde Price Resource Center in Compton in memory of their late sister. The center provides assistance and services to families affected by community violence. In 2017, Williams became the ambassador of the Allstate Foundation’s Purple Wallet Project. She also supports Elton John AIDS Foundation, NHS Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London, HollyRod Foundation, Eva Longoria Foundation, etc.
Other venture capital
Off the court, Williams got involved in some TV and dubbing work. She dubbed the 2001 “The Simpsons” and in 2005 the Disney Theater’s Higglytown Heroes. She guest starred in episodes of the Bernie Mac Show, Emergency Room, and Law and Order. In 2007, Serena appeared in Common’s I Want You music video with Alicia Keys and Kanye West. The Williams sisters wrote a book together in 2005, Venus and Serena: Serving from the Hips: Ten Rules of Life, Love and Victory.
Serena is the founder of Serena’s self-funded clothing line S. She owns a minority stake in the UFC and the Miami Dolphins.
personal life
Williams married Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in New Orleans in November 2017. Their wedding guests include big names such as Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian West. In April 2017, Williams accidentally revealed her pregnancy in Snapchat photos, and she planned to keep these photos for her own records. Due to a pulmonary embolism during childbirth, she gave birth to a daughter through C-section in 2017. Due to the second pulmonary embolism, she was in bed for six weeks after birth and had to postpone training. She announced in August 2018 that she had postpartum depression.
