Serena Williams has done it all in tennis, but there’s so much more to come for the 30-year-old. From her return to prominence and her stunning Wimbledon victory to her quest for a Grand Slam title and her new movie (in which she stars), Serena Williams is already rewriting the history of tennis:
• She won three majors: the 2000 French Open, the 2001 Wimbledon, and the 2002 U.S. Open. Those three trophies cemented Williams’s emergence as one of the best players in the world.
• She won her first Grand Slam title in 2002, when she finished runner-up in the U.S. Open.
• She won her first French Open title in 2003, beating former No. 1 Venus Williams in the semifinals. That was the beginning of Williams’ rise to the upper echelons of men’s tennis.
• She became the youngest player to win a Wimbledon singles championship at 18 years, 11 months, with the 2002 triumph.
• She became the first American woman to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament when she teamed with a British man and lost to Monica Seles in the 2004 U.S. Open final.
• She became the second youngest player to win a singles title at age 20. She was the youngest in the men’s field at her 2003 Australian Open victory.
• In 2005, she won all four Grand Slam tournaments and became just the third woman in history to win four straight Grand Slams. That same year, she became the first woman in history to win four consecutive Grand Slam tournament titles.
• She won the 2006 U.S. Open by upsetting Serena Williams in the semifinals. That was the most memorable moment of her career.
• She became the first women to win five singles events at the same Grand Slam tournament when she won the 2006 Wimbledon Championships. That same year, she became only the second woman to win consecutive Wimbledon finals.
• After winning the 2006 U.S. Open title, she won the French Open, the Australian Open and the Wimbledon Championship in 2007.
• She won the 2008 U.S. Open over her then-partner,
