Top 10 African-American Tennis Players of All Time

#1 Serena Williams

Serena Williams

'Comeback Mom', 'Supermom', 'GOAT' - well these are just a few of the numerous adjectives that are used to describe Serena Williams.

Serena needs no introduction. She has been the face of Women's Tennis for close to 2 decades and counting. Serena rose to prominence as a teenager in the late 1990s and is the only tennis player history to win Grand Slam singles titles across 3 different decades (the 1990's 2000's and 2010's).

Serena Williams' numbers are just staggering to say the least. She has accumulated close to 99 million USD in prize money earnings - that is more than twice as much as second-placed Venus Williams. Having been ranked WTA Number 1 for the first time in 2002, Serena has held that slot on 7 different occasions totaling 319 weeks including on a record 186 consecutive weeks.

23 Grand Slam Singles titles, 14 Grand Slam Doubles titles, 2 Grand Slam Mixed Doubles titles, 5 WTA Finals trophies, 4 Olympic Gold Medals and she isn't done yet.

Having received the WTA Comeback Player of the Year Award in 2018, Serena is poised to overtake Margaret Court's all-time Grand Slam tally in 2019.