Serena Williams

Serena Williams has been voted The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for the fifth time. Williams reached the finals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open after a remarkable return to tennis. That followed four surgeries she needed after developing blood clots following the birth of her daughter on Sept. 1, 2017. Williams is […]

Richard Williams, father of tennis champions Serena and Venus Williams, has revealed that he’s suffered a series of strokes which have left him barely able to speak. He’s in such a terrible medical condition that he has given power of attorney to his son who acts as his interpreter. The former tennis coach also claims in court documents […]

Tennis star Serena Williams is ending her 2018 with a bang as the cover model for Teen Vogue.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Strong. Sophisticated. Sexy. Like the tennis champ herself, Serena Williams’ fashion line is all about power moves and she’s hoping it will also inspire woman to find their own voice. “I want everyone to be able to do that and to step into their power,” she said Wednesday night at […]

Tennis champ Serena Williams graces the cover of GQ’s annual “Men of the Year” issue and in a feature for the magazine, she recalls her spar with the U.S. Open chair umpire at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York, where she lost to Naomi Osaka after an altercation that made international headlines. Williams calls her experience at the […]

Tennis great Serena Williams has been named GQ’s Woman of the Year — but the magazine’s cover has folks outraged on social media because the word “Woman” is in quotes. The 37-year-old features in one of four covers of the December issue wearing a black long-sleeve turtleneck leotard.   Announcing GQ’s Men (and Woman) of the Year […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis great Serena Williams goes topless and sings I Touch Myself in a video to promote breast cancer awareness month. With her hands covering her breasts, Williams writes in the Instagram post that the video took her out of her “comfort zone.” But she said she wanted to do it because early detection […]

An Australian Rules Football (AFL) club had to apologize after three of its players wore full-body blackface to impersonate Venus and Serena Williams, as well as a Kenyan-born AFL player, Aliir Aliir. The photos were taken last week during “Mad Monday,” a celebratory day that marks the end of the AFL season. According to the Huffington […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Serena Williams talked about her fashion business and her family, but not tennis fouls during a Friday appearance before a business trade group in Las Vegas. The 23-time Grand Slam champion wasn’t asked about gender equality in sports or an argument she had last weekend with the chair umpire at her […]

Tennis umpires are pushing to unionize after Carlos Ramos—the umpire at the center of the storm surrounding Serena Williams at the US Open, was “thrown under a bus” by the powers that be. The Times of London reports that there is a growing concern that umpires feel they were “not supported by the USTA” on several occasions and cite one […]

Nicki Minaj has hit out at an Australian cartoonist Mark Knight for his “racist” depiction of Serena Williams’ controversial behavior at the US Open. As noted by NME, the rapper described Knight as “c**ksucker of the week” after his sketch of the incident for The Herald Sun newspaper drew ire across social media. In the […]

An image was published in an Australian comic that showed a cartoon Serena Williams with “exaggerated features” and “masculine or Ape like” body. Many people who saw the image feel it’s sexist and racist. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with professor, and writer for the New York Times, Salamishah Tillet who was at the […]