American Serena Williams rose to prominence in the late 1990s winning her first Grand Slam at the US Open of 1999 aged just 17. Since then, Serena Williams has been an evergreen force on the Women’s Tour, EKO HOT BLOG gathered.
Serena became World Number 1 for the first time in July 2002 and since then, she has been ranked as the World Number 1 player eight times including an all-time record of 186 consecutive weeks between February 2013 and September 2016 (tying the record held by Steffi Graf).
We take a look at five amazing records set by Serena Williams which are most likely never to be matched or broken.
Serena Williams has been ranked WTA number one in ten different years of her professional career ( 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017). That ties her with Steffi Graf on the all-time charts. No other woman across Eras has matched this record.
In 2009, Serena Williams lost four back-to-back matches at the Key Biscayne Premier Mandatory Open, Andalucia Tennis Open, Madrid Open and the Italian Open. For the next eight years, she didn’t lose another couple of back-to-back matches. That streak ended in 2018 at the Miami Open.
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Serena Williams’ first Grand Slam title came in the year 1999 at the US Open when she was just shy of her 18th birthday. She also won the 2017 Australian Open at the age of 35.
Three women previously held the record with a 12-year gap. (Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf.) What makes this 18-year time span even more special is that Serena Williams is the only player across all Eras to win Grand Slam titles in three different decades (the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s).
This stat exemplifies the longevity that Serena Williams has had in the sport more than any other statistic. Since the WTA rankings were first introduced in 1975, 25 players have been ranked as World Number 1 till date. Of the 25 players to have been ranked Numero Uno, Serena Williams has logged victories against 21 of them.
The only four players whom she hasn’t logged a win against are the ones who retired even before her career began: Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Tracy Austin and Evonne Goolagong Cawley.
Serena has a win-loss record of 166-62 against players who’ve been ranked No. 1. Of the 21 World Number 1 ranked players whom she has beaten, she has a losing record against only Arantxa Sanchez Vicario at 3-4.
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