Serena Williams - USA Tennis Player, Fashion Designer

Life Biography of Serena Williams

Place of birth and / or date of birth: Saginaw, 1981

American tennis player. Serena Williams was born on September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, in Michigan, as a fifth daughter, after Lynder, Asha, Yetunde, and Venus, of an ambitious father, Richard Williams, and mother, Oracene, submissive to the decisions her husband, until in 2001 they separated. Not as tall as her sister, who exceeds 1.80 meters (measured 1.76 and Serena Williamsweighs 65 kilos), but has more power and muscle, forged in long hours of weights in the gym.

The family lived in Long Beach, in West Los Angeles, until one day, unexpectedly, the father, who aspired to be champions Venus and Serena tennis all his progeny moved to Compton, a hermetic ghetto located in the city ​​center, in order that both, at the time of four to five years, to grow in an environment of harshness.

When Venus had already been two years with the racket and endless training sessions, Serena Williams began, which continued to look at the progress being experienced by the older sister, who at eleven won 63 consecutive matches in regional tournaments. The manager and coach jealous of his daughters was Richard, until in 1991 the set, always under close supervision in the hands of an expert, Rick Macci, a noted maker of stars installed in Florida, where the family was able to take up residence thanks to a first contract with the firm Reebok.


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(Thomas Lanier Williams, Columbus, USA, 1911-New York, 1983) Playwright, poet and novelist. The result of a broken heart, at age eleven he began to write, taking as models Chekhov, DH Lawrence and the symbolist poet Hart Crane. Serena Williams graduated from the University of Iowa in 1940, the same year released, without success, his first play.

She lived the bohemian life in New Orleans, until, moved by a feeling of guilt towards his sister, who had undergone a lobotomy, She wrote what would be her first major theatrical success, The Glass Menagerie (1944), a fervent start production consolidate it as the most important playwright of his time.

His characters are often at odds with society and are torn between high-intensity conflicts, which eventually bring out the passions and faults in its original form, oblivious to social conventions. The plot is weak in his works, which focus on the torn expression of the characters, immersed in an oppressive environment, and whose dialogues convey poetry and sensuality.

The native South Tennesee Williams gives the most common scenario for their creations, as in her famous play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), which would be filmed several times (the first in 1958 by R. Brooks) . Her works during the fifties reached international fame, especially A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), which won the Pulitzer Prize and would also be brought to the screen (in 1952, by Elia Kazan).