Often imitated never duplicated, Venus and Serena Williams are the tennis phenoms that no other player could ever be. The Williams Sisters grew up in…
This Black History Month, NewsOne takes a look back at the top African-American moments from 2000 to 2012. Some will make you happy while others…
Venus and Serena Williams are big sisters to a new baby brother. Their father Richard Williams has become a dad again at the age of…
The Williams sisters have won every tennis event imaginable, many times over, and the Olympic Games are no stranger to Venus and Serena as well. So it should be no surprise the sisters just breezed through the Doubles competition with relative ease in these 2012 Summer Olympic Games, winning the Gold Medal in that event […]
Serena Williams, the reigning queen of tennis was focused and swinging hard at the 2012 Wimbledon Tennis Classic at the All-England Lawn & Tennis Club in London. She defeated Agnieska Radwanska 6 – 1, 5 – 7, 6 – 2 to win the Women’s Final on Saturday, the fifth of her career. Williams is the first 30-year-old female […]
Tennis star Venus Williams withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday, citing a diagnosis of Sjögren’s syndrome, a little-known autoimmune disorder that causes fatigue and joint pain. New Cancer Study Focuses on African American Women It’s an autoimmune disease that is typically characterized by inflammation in the tear ducts and salivary glands. Scientists are not […]
Venus Williams withdrew from the U.S. Open Wednesday, revealing that she has been diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome, an autoimmune disease that causes fatigue and joint pain. There is no known cure for the disease, but doctors say it is rarely life-threatening and — if managed — shouldn’t be career-ending. The surprising announcement came just hours […]
VIA: WilliamsSisters.org Professional tennis players. Serena Williams Born September 26, 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan. With her older sister, Venus, Williams born June 17, 1980 in Lynwood California took the tennis world by storm beginning in the late 1990s. The sisters harnessed their powerful groundstrokes and booming serves to rise in the rankings in both women’s […]
