Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the Open Era. She has also won three Olympic gold medals, one of only three athletes to do so. She is ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 237 weeks
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She has won a total of 65 WTA tournaments, including 17 of the last 18 Grand Slam tournaments. Her career win-loss record is 117–34 across all surfaces, and her 299 singles titles are more than any other player on the WTA Tour. Her career prize money earnings of $39,711,391 rank her second on the list of all-time winners list after Evonne Goolagong Cawley (318).
She was also named the 2007 WTA Most Improved Player and doubles player of the year in 2007. Her matches are often considered some of the greatest matches played by any athlete in any sport, and she is credited with helping to make tennis popular for women and African Americans by marketing tennis as a "cool" sport for African Americans to play.