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60 free Serena Williams trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
51 free Serena Williams trivia questions with answers. Serena Williams won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, four Olympic gold medals and 73 tour-level trophies, and spent 319 weeks as world No. 1. This Serena Williams trivia quiz covers the whole story: her birth in Michigan, the public courts of Compton, her father's famous plan, the 1999 US Open breakthrough at 17, the two Serena Slams, the 2017 Australian Open won while pregnant, the 14-year Indian Wells boycott, the 2018 US Open final, and her farewell to Ajla Tomljanović at the 2022 US Open. It also goes beyond the court: her marriage to Alexis Ohanian in New Orleans, daughters Olympia and Adira, Serena Ventures, her stakes in the Miami Dolphins and Angel City FC, the catsuit Roland Garros banned, King Richard, and a surprise crip walk at the Super Bowl. Questions run from easy to genuinely hard, so casual fans and tennis obsessives both get a workout. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference source, so you can settle arguments with confidence. For more, try BrainPickle's tennis trivia and women in sports quizzes.
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Q 01Serena Williams was born in 1981 in which city?
Saginaw, Michigan
The family soon left Michigan for Southern California, which is why most people assume she was born there.
Q 02In which year was Serena Williams born?
1981
She is fifteen months younger than her sister and doubles partner, and the youngest of her mother's five daughters.
Q 03In which California city did Serena and her sister learn tennis on public courts?
Compton
Richard Williams made the move over his wife's objections, believing a tough neighbourhood would toughen up his daughters.
Q 04When Serena was nine, the family moved to Florida so she could train at the academy of which coach?
Rick Macci
Macci had earlier coached Jennifer Capriati; Richard Williams later pulled his daughters out of the academy to coach them himself.
Q 05Serena Williams turned professional in which year?
1995
She was just 14 when she played her first professional event, a qualifying match she lost in under an hour.
Q 06At which tournament did Serena win her first Grand Slam singles title?
1999 US Open
She was 17, and it made her the first African-American woman to win a major singles title since Althea Gibson in 1958.
Q 07Who did Serena beat, the world No. 1 at the time, in the final of her first Grand Slam title in 1999?
Martina Hingis
On the way to the final she also beat Kim Clijsters, Conchita Martínez, Monica Seles and defending champion Lindsay Davenport.
Q 08From the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open, Serena won four straight majors, beating the same opponent in every final. Who?
Venus Williams
Holding all four titles at once without doing it in a calendar year became known as the "Serena Slam", and she repeated the feat in 2014-15.
Q 09How many Grand Slam singles titles did Serena Williams win?
23
That is the most of any player in the Open Era and one short of Margaret Court's all-time record, much of which was won before 1968.
Q 10At the 2017 Australian Open, Serena's 23rd major broke whose Open Era record of 22?
Steffi Graf
She won that title without dropping a set and, it later emerged, while about eight weeks pregnant.
Q 11How many WTA Tour-level singles titles did Serena win in total?
73
She added 23 doubles titles and two mixed doubles majors on top of that.
Q 12For how many total weeks was Serena ranked world No. 1 in singles?
319
Only Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova spent longer at the top, and Serena finished five seasons as year-end No. 1.
Q 13Serena Williams is married to Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of which website?
The two met by chance at a hotel breakfast in Rome in 2015, when he sat down at the table next to hers.
Q 14Serena and Alexis Ohanian married in November 2017 in which city?
Q 21The 2018 US Open final was overshadowed by Serena's row with which chair umpire?
Carlos Ramos
He issued three code violations, including a game penalty, after she called him a thief.
Q 22Serena's final professional singles match, at the 2022 US Open, was a defeat to which player?
Ajla Tomljanović
The three-set third-round loss ended a night session that drew the largest crowd ever for a US Open match at the time.
Q 23In which magazine did Serena announce in 2022 that she would "evolve away" from tennis?
Vogue
She avoided the word retirement, writing that she had never liked it, and said she wanted to grow her family and her venture firm.
New Orleans
The Beauty and the Beast themed wedding took place at the city's Contemporary Arts Center, with guests including Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian.
Q 15What is the first name of Serena's first daughter, born on September 1, 2017?
Olympia
Her full name is Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., and she has been photographed courtside in matching outfits with her mother since she was a toddler.
Q 16Serena's second daughter, born in August 2023, has what first name?
Adira
Her middle name is River, and she was born almost a year after her mother's farewell at the 2022 US Open.
Q 17How many weeks pregnant did Serena reveal she was in April 2017?
20
She had accidentally posted the news on Snapchat and then confirmed it, adding that she would miss the rest of the season.
Q 18After crowd abuse in 2001, Serena boycotted which tournament for 14 years?
Indian Wells
She was booed throughout the 2001 final after her sister withdrew from their semifinal, and her father said the crowd hurled racial slurs.
Q 19When Serena ended her 14-year tournament boycott in 2015, she partnered with which non-profit?
Equal Justice Initiative
The organisation, founded by Bryan Stevenson, provides legal help to people who may have been denied a fair trial.
Q 20Who beat Serena in the controversial 2018 US Open final?
Naomi Osaka
The winner, then 20, was collecting her first major, and the trophy ceremony was drowned out by boos aimed at the officiating.
Q 24How many Olympic gold medals did Serena Williams win?
4
Three of them came in doubles with her sister, and one in singles, making her one of the few players with a Career Golden Slam.
Q 25At the 2012 London Olympics, Serena won singles gold by crushing which opponent in the final?
Maria Sharapova
She won 6-0, 6-1 on the Wimbledon grass, one of the most one-sided Olympic finals ever played.
Q 26Serena won her first Olympic gold, in doubles, at which Games?
Sydney 2000
The sisters went on to win doubles gold again in 2008 and 2012, and never lost an Olympic doubles match together until 2016.
Q 27At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Serena won doubles gold but lost in the singles quarterfinals to whom?
Elena Dementieva
Her conqueror went on to win the singles gold medal, in an all-Russian final.
Q 28Which French coach worked with Serena from 2012 through the most dominant stretch of her career?
Patrick Mouratoglou
She won ten of her 23 majors during their partnership, which began after a shock first-round loss at the 2012 French Open.
Q 29In which city did Serena cut her foot on broken glass in July 2010, ending her season?
Munich
It happened days after she had won Wimbledon, and complications kept her off court for almost a year.
Q 30In March 2011, Serena confirmed a hematoma and which life-threatening condition?
Pulmonary embolism
She has since said she feared for her life, and she suffered another blood clot scare after giving birth in 2017.