Venus Williams

Venus Ebony Star Williams, also known as Venus Williams, is a professional American Tennis player. She was born on 17 June 1980 in Lynnwood, California. She has achieved 49 Career Titles. Her talent was spotted at 07 by a professional tennis player, Tony Chesta. Venus received her associate degree in fashion design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and a bachelor’s in Business administration from Indiana University East. William is the CEO of the interior design firm V Starr Interiors, Jupiter, Florida. She was featured on CBS Network in 2020. She made her debut in World Team Tennis in 2000 and played fourteen sessions of it. Venus won four Olympic gold medals and one silver.

In Sydney Olympics 2000, she became the second player who won the Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles at one Olympics. She was named the 2012 WTT Final MVP for her efforts. She has won five King Trophies. In 2005, Tennis Magazine ranked Williams as the 25th-best player of the past 40 years. She was listed as one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time in 2011. In May 2020, both the Tennis Channel and Newsday ranked Venus Williams as the eighth-greatest female player of all time. She fought for equal pay to Women in prize money and became the first woman to receive it when she won the 2007 Wimbledon tournament.

Later, her fight for equal prize money was documented by Nine for IX. A documentary film, “Venus and Serena,” was also made on them in 2012. She won the Singles Wimbledon Championship in 2000, 2001, 2007 and 2008. She won the Doubles Wimbledon Championship in 2002, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2016. She won the U.S. Open Championship in 2000 and 2001 Singles and in 1999 and 2009 Doubles. She won the Australian open Championship in 1998 (mixed), and Doubles in 2001, 2003, 2009 and 2010. She won the French Open Championship in 1998(mixed) and Doubles in 1999 and 2010. In 2001, she won the Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award and EMMA Best Sport Personality Award. In 2003, Venus won The President's Award of the 34th NAACP Image Awards. She also won the Gitanjali Diamond Award in 2007 and the Anti-Defamation League Americanism Award in 2008.