10 milestones that define Serena Williams' career

Her undying passion for the game is matched only by her fierce aggression on the court. These are just two of the attributes that have made Serena Williams the greatest player of her generation and one of the greatest to have ever stepped on the tennis court.In a career spanning nearly two decades, Serena has won a whopping 19 singles Grand Slam titles, 13 women’s doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles. Dubbed by the media as the ‘Queen of the Court’, Serena, on April 1st, 2015, reached yet another milestone in her illustrious career: She beat Sabine Lisicki in the quarter-final of the Miami Open to take the total number of wins in her career to 700.In the light of this stunning accomplishment, we rewind the clock backwards to take a look at some of Serena’s greatest achievements in her career:

#1 The incredible talent

Serena Williams was just three years old when she would wield the tennis racquet for the first time. Her father Richard took upon himself to coach both Serena and her sister Venus. At nine, Serena was the number one ranked player in the under 10 age category in the United States of America with an astonishing 46-3 career record.

However, for reasons both personal and political, her father pulled her (and Venus) out of the junior circuit, and took on the job of coaching his daughters full-time. Serena would later go on to say that, not having taken the more conventional path of playing the junior tennis circuit had proved beneficiary to her and her sister while adding that it needn’t work for all.