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Tennis: How many Grand Slams does Serena Williams have?

How many Grand Slamsdoes Serena have? Serena Williams Grand Slam titles? Let's find out the total number ofGrand Slam titles Serena Williams has so far won in her career.

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Serena Williams poses with the Daphne Akhurst Trophy after winning the Women's Singles Final 2017 against Venus Williams of the United States. (Getty)
Serena Williams poses with the Daphne Akhurst Trophy after winning the Women's Singles Final 2017 against Venus Williams of the United States. (Getty)

Serena Williams is a professional tennis player from America anda former world No. 1female tennis player. She wasborn in Michigan, Saginaw but her family moved early to California and then on to Palm Beach, Florida, in order forSerena and her sister Venus to join the Rick Macci Tennis Academy. Serena and Venus Williams both were taught before the run of Grand Slams by their father Richard.

Serena is one of the biggest tennis names of all-time whohas rewrittenrecord books in a manner never previously achieved by a tennis player, male or female. She has accomplished everything in the sportand is still good, even after giving birth to her child.

Williams’ most striking thing is her level of superiority over the rest of the field. Few sportsmen have dominated their sports like Williams has if any; for the better part of 20 years, the distance between her and the next best tour players was stunningly high.

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How many Grand Slams does Serena have?

In single, double, and mixed double titles combined among active players, Williams has the highest Grand Slam titles. Her 39 titles of Grand Slam placed her joint third and second in Open Era on the all-time list, with a total of 23 in single, 14 in females doubles, and two in mixed doubles. She is the latest female player to have played all 4 Grand Slam singlestitles simultaneously, after Rod Laver and Graf, and the third to do so twice.

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Serena is also thelatest player in a single calendar year to win a Grands Slam title on each surface (2015). She also has all four Grand Slam women’s doubling titles (2009–10) along with her older sister Venus. On the hardcourt, Williams won the record with thirteen Grand Slam singles.

For the bulk of the Australian Open Era titles won, Williams shares the Open Era record with Chris Evert for most of the titles won at the US Open (6). She also records the majority of women’s singles in the big games, with 357 matches and the majority of singles under30 years of age (10).

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Williams won 14 Grand Slam doubles, all of them with her sister Venus and the pair in the Grand Slam doubles final was unbeatable. She and Venus as a pair have the third-largest doubling of the Grand Slam women’s chips, behind Natasha Zvereva’s 18 titles (14 with Gigi Fernández) and Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver’s winning 20 titles.

How many titles does Serena Williams have?

Besides winning 39 Grand Slam titles, Williams can boast of adding another 34 titles, thus reaching the number of 73 total titles in her career. Serenais a five-time winner of theWTA Tour championship in the single segment.

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She won also four Olympic gold medals, one female and three female – a record she shared with Venus, her sister. Once the Williams sisters have arrived, it was proven that the women’s professional tennis tour is beginning a new age of strength and athleticism.

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