Tag Archives: Serena Williams

Serena Williams’ dreams of securing another win at Wimbledon were dashed on Tuesday. The seven-time champion retired from her first-round match after sustaining a leg injury.  ESPN reports that Williams slipped on Centre Court during her match with Aliaksandra Sasnovich and needed to take an injury timeout to receive treatment. Williams attempted to continue …

Serena Williams announced that she will not participate in the Olympic games this summer in Tokyo on Sunday. Williams told reporters at Wimbledon that he had her reasons for pulling out of the 2021 Summer Olympics; however, she is choosing not to make it public, according to Bleacher Report.  “There’s a lot of …

Serena Williams announced she signed a deal with Amazon Studios to bring scripted and unscripted programming to the network, including a docuseries that looks into her personal life and her life on the tennis court.  “I’m very excited to be partnering with Amazon Studios – they are developing some of the most …

Serena Williams says that marriage can be “bliss” but that you have to put in work. As we all know, relationships are complex. Beautiful, but they all take work. In a new Bumble Q&A interview, Williams, 39, opened up about her marriage to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. The tennis star …

Serena Williams has withdrawn from the Miami Open due to recent oral surgery.  The 39-year-old tennis star has decided to step down from this year’s Miami Open, which begins March 24 and ends April 4. According to People, Williams has already won the Miami Open eight times, most recently in …

Serena Williams is set to take on Naomi Osaka in the 2021 Australian Open Semifinals. The 39-year-old tennis star won against Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday. According to Sports Illustrated, she will return to Melbourne Park for the first time since she won the tournament in 2017. “I just …

Despite her monumental success, Serena Williams admits that she’s been feeling “undervalued” and “underpaid” throughout her tennis career in comparison to her peers. Williams, 39, is the cover star of British Vogue’s November issue, in which she talks about dealing with the pressure of being in the spotlight without seeing others that …

Will Smith’s production company has reached a settlement in the lawsuit over a film about Venus and Serena Williams’ father. The upcoming biographical film King Richard will tell the story of Serena Williams and Venus Williams’ father’s life. But, back in June, Smith’s production company Overbrook Entertainment, Star Thrower Entertainment, …

A new women’s soccer team is coming to Los Angeles, owned by a group of famous women, including Natalie Portman and Serena Williams. On Tuesday, the National Women’s Soccer League announced the group was awarded the rights to form a soccer franchise in the city. Along with Portman, who spearheaded …

Will Smith and Warner Bros. have been hit with a new lawsuit over the upcoming film, “King Richard,” which is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and is based on the life of Venus and Serena Williams’ father Richard Williams. In court docs filed in LA Superior Court this week, TW3 …

Serena Williams wants you to know it’s not easy being a working mom. In a post on her Instagram page earlier today, the superstar athlete shared a  photo of herself with no makeup, sitting inside a parked vehicle, holding her beautiful 2-year-old daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr., aka Olympia “I am not sure …

Tennis phenom Serena Williams has ended a three-year title drought winning her first WTA trophy since her win in Melbourne, Australia, in 2017, and donated her winner’s proceeds to victims of the Australian bushfires following the WTA Auckland Classic final on Sunday. The 38-year-old tempered celebrations as she donated her …

Tennis phenom Serena Williams and NBA superstar Lebron James were selected by The Associated Press as the Female and Male Athletes of the Decade this weekend after a vote by AP member sports editors and AP beat writers. Williams has won 12 Grand Slam titles over the past decade, more …

When Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Redditt and husband to Serena Williams, started a paid paternal leave policy for his employees, he didn’t know he would soon become the most prominent advocates for the cause in the US. “We implemented a policy that I didn’t think I was going to be …

World number three tennis star Naomi Osaka has decided to choose a Japanese citizenship over an American one, as she prepares to compete in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The 21-year-old tennis sensation was born in Japan to a Haitian father and Japanese mother but moved to New York when she …

Serena Williams made an emotional exit from the Rogers Cup after a back injury forced her to retire. The tennis champion retired early in the first set of the Rogers Cup final against Bianca Andreescu with an upper back injury. According to USA Today, Williams, who reaches the Wimbledon final …

Serena Williams is going into business with Mark Cuban to fight maternal mortality. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes. Williams became one of those women when she faced extreme difficulties during the birth of her daughter back in 2018. Now, Williams wants …

Tennis star Serena Williams has flawlessly graced the cover of this month’s #HarpersBazaar magazine – unretouched. The athlete has also explained why she owed fellow tennis player, Naomi Osaka an apology. When it comes to beauty, it comes in abundance when Williams is in front of the camera. In nothing …

We already know the infinite amount of #BlackGirlMagic that resides in powerhouses like, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and Serena Williams, but it’s refreshing to see them celebrated on the Forbes list, amongst the names of the wealthiest self-made women under the age of 40. In spite of their individual rise to fame …

‘King Richard’ began as a script written by Zach Baylin about Richard Williams, the father of tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams. The story explored Richard’s journey to overcoming hardship, skepticism, controversy, and his own troubled past, as he coached his daughters without a background in the sport. Now, his …