Serena Williams has set the record for single-season prize money in women's tennis. The eleven times grand slam winner has earned USD 6,545,586 in 2009.
 
Williams broke the Justine Henin’s record of $5.5 million, which she had earned in 2007.
 
The American who triumphed over ...

Serena Williams won her second career WTA Championship title on Sunday. She crushed Venus Williams by 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) to earn the prize money worth $1.55 million.
 
Serena's second season-ending trophy made her just the second player after Justine Henin in 2007 to win two Grand Slam titles as ...

World number one Serena Williams earned an easy win over Elena Dementieva to make it into the semi-finals of the WTA Championships on Thursday.
 
Serena's 6-2, 6-4 victory completed a 100 percent record for the American in Maroon Group and confirmed her as the first player through to the ...

Serena Williams reclaimed her world number one spot as Dinara Safina pulled out from the Sony Ericsson Championship.
 
The tight race for the year-ending world number one ranking ended in sudden and dramatic fashion on Wednesday at the Sony Ericsson Championships when a tearful Dinara Safina ...

Serena Williams will represent United States in next month's Fed Cup final against Italy. This was told by United States Tennis Association on Wednesday.
 
Williams last appeared in the competition in 2007 and was part of the team that won the title in 1999. The 11 times grand slam winner is ...

Serena Williams defeated Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova on the opening day of the WTA Championships. She had a 7-6, 7-5 win over the Russian and maintained to stay on course to end the year as world number one.
 
Second-ranked Serena served 11 aces to get the better of the French Open champion ...

Serena Williams of the United States leads a nearly unchanged women's tennis rankings top 10 issued on Monday by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
 
Williams has 7,945 points for a slim advantage over former number one Dinara Safina of Russia (7,940). Svetlana Kuznetsova, also of Russia, ...

Serena Williams ended her China Open campaign on Thursday .Russian Nadia Petrova  stunned the top seed by 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5) in the third round only days before she will be officially regaining her number one spot in the ranking chart.
 
Williams will take over the top spot in the ...

World number one Serena Williams may not be allowed to play in the Australian Open in 2010. The threat to Williams comes after she posed nude for the front cover of ESPN Magazine and for her bizarre behaviour in the U.S. Open semi-finals.
 
According to a report, Serena is under an ...

Serena Williams regained her number one spot in world rankings defeating Russian Ekaterina Makarova in the second round of the USD 6.6 million China Open on Tuesday.The top seed crushed the Russian in straight sets by 6-3 6-2.
 
Dinara Safina’s loss to the 226th-ranked Chinese wildcard ...

Fourth seeded US tennis players, Serena Williams and Venus Williams,  took over top seeds Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of the United States in straight sets of 6-2, 6-2 to clinch the women’s doubles title at US Open on Monday.
 
The defending champions did not even get ...

Kim Clijsters really crushed World No 2 Serena Williams in a straight set match for a 6-4, 7-5 in the US Open semi-finals on Saturday to enter the title clash.
 
Williams had earlier drawn a warning for smashing her racquet to the ground after losing the first set. The second warning was an ...

Serena Williams and Venus Williams have entered their 10th Grand Slam doubles final. William sisters have a career record of 9-0.
 
Serena Said, "Hopefully, that's a record that won't end yet. We really want this. I'm sure whoever we play really wants it, too."
 
The ...

Defending champion Serena Williams will play against Kim Clijsters in the US Open semi-final. She defeated Italy's Flavia Pennetta by 6-4, 6-3 to move into the semis.
 
This was Serena’s fifth consecutive straight-sets win and she is looking forward for a fourth US Open crown and a ...

World No. 2 Serena Williams took over the twenty second seeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia in a ruthless match of the fourth round that was played on Sunday. Serena Williams won the match by a 6-2,6-0.
 
The World No. 2 won 10 straight games from 2-2 to take over Daniela Hantuchova in ...

Serena Williams reached the third round of US open defeating Hungarian left-hander Melinda Czink on Wednesday night. She crushed the 51st-ranked Hungarian by 6-1, 6-1 in the second round match.
 
The game took place in Arthur Ashe Stadium and was scheduled an evening slot after the men's ...

The US Tennis Association following the ATP and WTA rankings ranked Roger Federer and Dinara Safina at number one place for the US Open on Tuesday.
 
Safina is leading the women's field, with Serena Williams at the second place. Safina is winless in three Grand Slam finals, while Williams is ...

Serena and Venus Williams now own a small stake in the Miami dolphins. The William sisters confirmed this on Tuesday and were happy to be associated with their favourite NFL team.
 
The tennis-playing sisters are the latest celebrities to become the minor owners of the team.
 
The ...

Word No. 2 Serena Williams reserved her place in the semi-finals after she took over Czech player Lucie Safarova for a 6-3, 6-2 in the quarter final match of the Rogers Cup played on Friday.
 
Williams, who had been the 2001 champion, did not have to play for even one hour to reserve her ...

Maria Sharapova of Russia and Jelena Jankovic of Serbia have entered the quarter-finals of Toronto Cup on Thursday.
 
Sharapova, who was away from court for nine months due to shoulder injury, made a stunning comeback. She made it into the last eight defeating seventh seed Vera Zvonareva by ...

Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Kim Clijsters have entered the third round of $2 million WTA hardcourt tournament where as World No. 1, Dinara Safina, failed to make it to the third round.
 
France's Aravane Rezai defeated Russia's Safina in a 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Safina, who lost to ...