How about Serena!

Serena Williams, Picture Courtesy of WTAFinals.com

Nothing beats winning, but when you can do it over and over and over and over again. You only wonder how dominate are you? Comparisons are always done and people like to have an image like the one we see above, but there has to be a difference when you are talking about somebody that continues to win. Women in sports has always been a topic that people have to try and figure out who's the lady out there that will grab the attention of the world for their respective sport?

Everybody by now, pretty much knows Serena Williams. The 33 year old African American who has taken Tennis by storm. Her career started in 1995 but had troubles up until 1999 trying to get her feet underneath her. She would win matches but find herself losing control when the games got tough. Her young stage of life didn't seem to be the best of her but everybody would realize how great she was in 1997. In 1997, she was able to defeat Mary Pierce, who was ranked #7 in the world. In 1998, she would begin to be a target in the big matches internationally. This would be her international beginning of her brand and ability to draw attention.

Her sister Venus Williams, who is definitely no breeze-over, has been able to grab attention also on a large market. Venus started her career a year before and was able to have success within 3 years with cracking the top 50 in the world. By the end of 1997, Venus would be 22nd in the world. Venus and Serena would go on to face each other many times in their career and do some things with tennis that would change the world.

Up to date... Serena has been and looks to continue to be everything in the world. We can talk about Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Derek Jeter, Michael Phelps, and a few others in their dominating respects but I don't think we value or understand what Serena brings. Serena not only the face of tennis but she is the face of female athletes.  She has been able to have fans from so many different backgrounds and has grabbed attention with her ability to stay number 1 in the world for so long.

Today was Serena's third title at WTA and she was able to dominate it in a 6-3, 6-0 fashion. Serena was able to earn another $2.04 million today winning against the #4 ranked Simona Halep. She ranks #1 in earnings of all time female athletes in their perspective sports with over $60 million under her belt. She earns around $11 million in endorsements and is the face of Nike Female Tennis. Serena brings an element of notoriety throughout a diverse community. I know a lot of different people will disagree throughout time but you definitely have to check all the different things that Serena has been able to do for female athletes.