Venus Williams Trivia | 50 facts about the tennis player

Venus Williams is an American professional tennis player and the sister of Serena Williams.

Let’s find out some trivia about her life and career.

1. Her full name is Venus Ebony Starr Williams
2. She was born on June 17, 1980
3. She is an American professional tennis player
4. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles
5. Williams has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon and two at the US Open
6. She is widely regarded as one of the all-time greats of the sport
7. Along with her younger sister Serena, Venus Williams was coached by her parents Oracene Price and Richard Williams
8. Turning professional in 1994
9. She reached her first major final at the 1997 US Open
10. In 2000 and 2001, Williams claimed the Wimbledon and US Open titles
11. As well as Olympic singles gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
12. She first reached the singles world No. 1 ranking on 25 February 2002
13. Becoming the first African American woman to do so in the Open Era
14. And the second of all-time after Althea Gibson
15. She reached four consecutive major finals between 2002 and 2003,
16. She lost each time to Serena
17. She then suffered from injuries, winning just one major title between 2003 and 2006
18. Williams returned to form starting in 2007
19. Then she won Wimbledon (a feat she repeated the following year)
20. In 2010, she returned to the world No. 2 position in singles, but then suffered again from injuries
21. Starting in 2014, she again gradually returned to form
22. This culminate in two major final appearances at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2017
23. Along with her seven singles major titles, Williams has also won 14 women’s doubles major titles
24. All partnering Serena
25. The pair is unbeaten in Grand Slam doubles finals
26. She became the world No. 1 in doubles for the first time on June 7, 2010, alongside Serena, after the pair completed a non-calendar-year Grand Slam at the French Open
27. The pair also won three Olympic gold medals in women’s doubles, in 2000, 2008, and 2012
28. Adding to Venus’ singles gold in 2000 and her mixed doubles silver in 2016
29. Williams has also won two mixed doubles major titles, both in 1998
30. The Williams sisters are credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women’s professional tennis tour
31. With 49 WTA Tour singles titles, Williams trails only her sister Serena among active players with the most singles titles
32. She has 22 WTA doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles
33. Her combined total of 73 WTA titles is also second among active players behind Serena
34. Her 35-match winning streak from the 2000 Wimbledon Championships to the 2000 Generali Ladies Linz final is the longest of the 21st century thus far
35. She is also one of only two active players to have reached the singles finals of all four majors, along with Serena
36. Williams was twice the season prize money leader (in 2001 and 2017)
37. She ranks second behind Serena in all-time career prize money winnings
38. Having earned over US$42 million as of March 2022
39. Williams was born in Lynwood, California
40. Her parents are Richard Williams and Oracene Price
41. Her talents were apparent at the age of seven when a professional local tennis player named Tony Chesta spotted Williams
42. He quickly identified her potential in the sport
43. The Williams family moved from Compton, California, to West Palm Beach, Florida, when she was ten
44. She and her sister Serena could attend the tennis academy of Rick Macci, who took notice of the sisters and who would provide additional coaching
45. He did not always agree with Williams’ father but respected that “he treated his daughters like kids, allowed them to be little girls”
46. Richard stopped sending his daughters to national junior tennis tournaments when Williams was eleven, since he wanted them to take it slowly and focus on schoolwork
47. Another motivation was racial, as he had allegedly heard parents of other players disparage the Williams sisters during tournaments
48. At that time, Williams held a 63–0 record on the United States Tennis Association junior tour and was ranked No. 1 among the under-12 players in Southern California
49. In 1995, Richard pulled his daughters out of Macci’s academy
50. From then on took over all coaching at their home