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Serena Williams Full name Serena Jameka Williams Country (sports) United States Residence Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, U.S.[1] Born September 26, 1981 (age 39) Saginaw, Michigan, U.S. Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1] Turned pro October 1995 Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand) Serena Jameka Williams is an American Coach Richard Williams (1994–) professional tennis player and former world Oracene Price [2] No. 1 in women's single tennis. She has won Patrick Mouratoglou (2012–) 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any Prize money US$ 94,236,271[3] player in the Open Era, and the second-most 1st in all-time rankings of all time behind Margaret Court. The Women's Tennis Association ranked her Official website www.serenawilliams.com world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf. In total, she has been No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third in the Open Era among female players behind Graf and Martina Navratilova. Singles Doubles Career record 851–148 (85.2%) Career record 190–34 (84.8%) Career titles 73 (5th in overall rankings) Career titles 23 Highest ranking No. 1 (July 8, 2002) Highest ranking No. 1 (June 21, 2010) Current ranking No. 8 (April 5, 2021) Current ranking No. 406 (February 22, 2021) Robert Lewandowski Date and place of birth August 21, 1988 Warsaw rise 185 cm[1] position assailant Club information club Bayern Munich Club number 9 Junior career years club 1997–2004 Varsovia Warsaw Senior career[a] years club As of Goals 11:00 a.m. 2005 Delta Warsaw 17 (4) 2005– Legia II Warsaw 12 (2) Robert Lewandowski is a Polish professional 2006 footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga 2006– Znicz Pruszków 59 (36) 2008 club Bayern Munich and is the captain of the 2008– Lech Poznan 58 (32) Poland national team. He is renowned for his 2010 2010– Borussia Dortmund 131 (74) positioning, technique and finishing, and is widely 2014 2014– Bayern Munich 216 (198) regarded as one of the best strikers in the world, In total: 493 (346) and one of the best players in Bundesliga history. [b] He has scored over 500 senior career goals for Representative career club and country years representation As of 11:00 Goals a.m. 2007 Poland U-20 1 (0) 2008 Poland U-21 3 (0) 2008– Poland 118 (66) In total: 122 (66) Mo Farah Date and place of birth March 23, 1983 Gabiley, New Zealand Medal achievements United Kingdom national team Olympic Games athletics gold London 2012 (5000 m) athletics gold London 2012 (10,000 m) athletics gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 (5000 m) athletics gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 (10,000 m) World gold Daegu 2011 5000 m gold Moscow 2013 5000 m gold Moscow 2013 10,000 m Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah CBE OLY is a gold Beijing 2015 5000 m British long-distance runner and the most gold Beijing 2015 10,000 m successful British track athlete in modern Olympic gold London 2017 10,000 m Games history. He is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic silver Daegu 2011 10,000 m gold medalist in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m. silver London 2017 5000 m Farah is the second athlete, after Lasse Virén, to Championships win both the 5000 m and 10,000 m titles at gold Barcelona 2010 10,000 m successive Olympic Games. He also completed gold Barcelona 2010 5000 m the 'distance double' at the 2013 and 2015 World gold Helsinki 2012 5000 m gold Zurich 2014 5000 m Championships in Athletics. He was the second gold Zurich 2014 10,000 m man, after Kenenisa Bekele, to win long-distance silver Gothenburg 2006 5000 m doubles at successive Olympics and World European Indoor Championships Championships, and the first in history to defend gold Turin 2009 3000 m both distance titles in both major global gold Paris 2011 3000 m competitions – a feat described as the World Half Marathon Championships 'quadruple-double'. Since finishing 2nd in the bronze Cardiff 2016 Individually 10,000 metres at the 2011 World Championships Decorations in Athletics, Farah had an unbroken streak of ten global final wins. The streak ended in Farah's final championship track race, when he finished second to Ethiopia's Muktar Edris in the 2017 5000 metres final. In his final track race, the 2017 Diamond League Final in Zurich in August 2017, Farah gained his revenge, edging out world champion Edris to win his only IAAF Diamond League title at 5000 metres. .