World tennis star of all time, the American Serena Williams was awarded today with the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2025.
With an extraordinary career in which she won 73 titles, including 23 Grand Slams, the winner of four Olympic gold medals won the most important distinction awarded by Spain to personalities in different spheres of life.
Almost a year ago, Serena was one of the sportswomen invited to carry a section of the Olympic torch at the opening ceremony of the Paris Games, where she accompanied, among others, the Spanish tennis player Rafa Nadal and the Romanian former gymnast Nadia Comaneci.
The jury valued other merits of the former queen of the courts, as ‘a strong advocate of gender equality and equal opportunities between men and women in sport and, in general, in society’.
In addition to these issues, she has devoted her own resources to equal opportunities in education and assistance to victims of violence, through entities such as The Serena Williams Foundation, The Williams Sisters Fund, and the Yetunde Price Resource Center.
She was also appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Education in 2011. She said goodbye to active sports in 2022.
Born in 1991 in Michigan, she took her first steps in tennis at the age of five, with training guided by her father and following the path of her sister Venus.
