Sunday, December 11, 2022

2010 started with Serena Williams losing to Elena Dementieva in Sydney. At the Australian Open, Serena Williams was the defending chapion in both singles and doubles. She reached the final and defeated Justine Henin, who had just recently came out of retirement. Serena Williams earned her twelfth Grand Slam singles title. In the doubles, Serena and Venus Williams successfully defended their title by defeating Cara Black and Liezel Huber in the finals. For the new few events, Serena Williams eithdrew to deal with a leg injury. She returned at the Rome Master and lost to Jelena Jankovic in the semifinals. At Madrid, she fell to Nadia Petrova in the third round, but she partnered with Venus to win the doubles title. Williams's next tournament was Wimbledon, where she defeated Russian Vera Zvonareva in the final without facing a break point and breaking the serve of Zvonareva three times. She did not lose a set in the tournament. After the match, Martina Navratilova said that Williams is in the top five of all the women's tennis players in all of history, which she said that "it's not just about how many Slams you win or how many tournaments you win—it's just your game overall. And she's got all the goods." Serena was the defending champion in doubles with her sister Venus, winning the last two years. They lost in the quarterfinals to Elena Vesnina and Zvonareva. In Munich on July 7, Williams stepped on broken glass while in a restaurant, and the injury caused her to miss the rest of the year. Williams ended the year ranked No. 4 in singles after six tournaments, and No. 11 in doubles after four tournaments. On March 2, 2011, she confirmed that she had suffered a hematoma and a pulmonary embolism. Everything changed from 2011 to 2013 when Serena Williams reached a new level of dominance. By 2012, she won her fourth U.S> Open singles title and her 15th career Grand Slam title overall beating Aazarenka in the final. She was named Internaitonal Tennis Fedeation World Champion by 2012. She worked with Venus Williams to win their fifth Wimbldeon doubles title and their 13th grand slam doubles titles. They defended their 2012 Olympic double titless. They are the only tennis players to win four gold medals. In 2013, she won her fifth U.>S Open title. Serena Williams became the oldest U.S. Open champion in the Open Era and pushed her career prize past $50 million. By 2013, she was ranked No. 1 in the owrld for the third time being the oldest No. 1 player in WTA history. She earned Both Bet Female Athlete and Best Female Tennis Player awards at the 2013 ESPY Awards. By December of 2013, Serena Williams recieved the Associated Press 2013 Female Athlete of the Year award, her third AP award after 2002 and 2009. ONly Chris Evert and Babe Didrikson (one of the greatest athletes in human history) were the women chosen more than Serena Williams. From 2014 to 2015, Serena Williams made more success. She defended her title at the Brisbane International by defeating No. 2 Victoria Azarenka in the final. She won the Miami Open in 2014. She won ehr U.S. Open singles titles in 2014 too. By 2015, Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova for the 16th conservutive time to claim her 6th Austrlian Open singles title and her 19th career Grand Slam singles title. This victory made Williams suprass both Evert and Navratilova for the 2nd most Grand Slam titles won in the Open Era. Serena Williams is the only player in history to win all four Grand Slams at least once after having turned 30 years old. She had her Second Serena Slam by 2015. She was number one in 2016. IN 2016, Serena Williams, she defeated Angelique Kerber in a rematch at Wimbledon. She equalled Steffi Graf's record of 22 Grand Slams in the Pen Era. This was her 71st careeer WTA title overall. She won her 6th WImbledon doubles title and 14th doubles Grand Slam titles overall. In 2017, she won her 8th Australian Open final defeating her sister, Venus That was her 23rd GrandSlam singles titles, suprassing Steffi Graf's Open record of 22. This was the first time in the Open Era that 2 players aged 35 or older had competed in the final of a Grand SLam tournament. She was No. 1 in ranking in 2017. Also, on April 19, 2017, Serena Willaism said that she was 20 weeks pregnant and would miss the remainder of the season. She might have been 8 to 9 weeks pregnant when she won the Australian Open. Her daughter was born on September 1, 2017 whose name is Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. From 2018 to 2022, Serena Williams competed hard. She lost to a new start Naomi Osaka of Japan in 2018. By 2020, Serena Williams won her first singles title as a mother at the 2020 ASB Classic, defeating Jessica Pegulas inthe final. She worked with Caroline Wozniacki in the doubles tournament but lost to Asia Muhammad and Yalor Townsend. Serena Williams is the first woman in the professional era with at least one title in the four decades of the 1990's, the 2000's, the 2010's, and the 2020's. THAT MEANS THAT SERENA WILLIAMS IS THE GOAT. Serena Williams was the first player in history to reach the semifanls of Grand slam and U.S. Open in the our decades of the 1990's, the 2000's, the 2010's, and the 2020's. By Mayof 2021 in the Itlaian Open, Serena Williams played her 1000th match of her career. By early 2022, she promoted the film King IRchard about her father and her sisters. She was at the 94th Academy Awards. By August 2022, Serena Williams wrote for Cogue that she wants to evolve away form tennis. Serena Williams wants to grow her family, work on ther venture capital firm, and spend more time with her family. Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff said that htey are inspired by Serena Williams. Today, Serena William is that icon of sports and culture that tons of people admire worldwide. The legacy of Sister Serena Williams is monumental. With her accomplishments alone, Serena Williams is easily the best woman tennis player of all time. She is also one of the greatest athletes of all time. In 2017, BBC Sport users picked her as the greatest women tennis player of the Open Era. BBC presenter and former French Open Champion Sue Barker said that, "Serean is the greatest because this era is so much more competitive than previous eras. The pace shere generates her serve is without question the greatest ever combined with her movement and her power, and she pushes her opponents constantly on the back foot." By 2018, a Tennis.com panel selected Serena Williams as the greatest woman tennis player of all time. In 2018, Federer said taht Serena Williams has the best case for the Greatest of All Time in tennis, whether man or woman. IN 2022, John McEnroe said that Serena Williams is an icon and the GOAT of GOATs. Serena Williams and Venus Williams also worked to promtoe pay equity in tennis and helped to increase diversity in the sport. There were black icons in tennis for decades, but the Williams Sisters promoted that diverse representation into the next level. Now, we see a more diverse group of tennis playing athletes in the professional level. That is why Sloane Stephens (former U.S. Open Champison), Coco Guaff (a French Open finalist), and Naomi Osaka (a fourt time Grand Slam champion) have thanked Serena Williams and Venus Williams for playing tennis in general. Serena Williams' involvement in social activism, philanthropy, fashion, and in helping to expand the power of human expression are blessings. She refutes the old lie that femininity is not related to strength. Femininity is diverse and is definitely related to strength indeed. There is the story of Mary Rosalyn Spurlock that must be shown too. She was my late 3rd cousin. She was born on April 11, 1942 at Suffolk, Virginia. She passed away on July 10, 2017. She was a direct descendant of my 5th grandmother Zilphy Claud. She married Leavel E. Ricks Jr. (1940-2001), Their 2 children are my 4th cousins who are David Keith Ricks (b. 1961) and Derek Leavell Ricks Sr. (b. 1963). Mary Rosalyn Spurlock's grandsons are Derek Leavell Ricks Jr. (b. 1990. His parents are Derek Leavell Ricks Sr. and Diahnn Renee Ricks. Diahann was born in 1966) and Demetrius. Mary Spurlock Rick's siblings are Thomas Lawrence McGlore Spurlock Jr. (1938-2018), Larry Nelson Spurlock (b. 1952-2020. Larry's daughter is Angel Edwards from the Washington, D.C. area), and Kenneth Stuart Spurlock Sr. (1940-2020). My late 3rd cousin Kenneth Stuart Spurlock Sr. married Shirley Odessa Greene (b. 1938)on June 13, 1961 at Suffolk, Virginia. Their child is Kenneth Stuart Spurlock Jr. (b. 1961). The couple of Kenneth and Shirley Spurlock divorced on July 13, 1966 at Suffolk, Virginia.

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