APRIL – SERENA WILLIAMS
Serena
Williams embodies style, power, beauty and courage. Currently ranked
the number-one women's tennis player, Serena has overcome insurmountable
odds to win 21 career Grand Slams. She and her sister, Venus, changed
the way women's tennis was played. Before she entered the sport, a
woman's serve was used to get the game going, now it is an exercise in
aggressive power. Serena is fast, athletic and a mentally tough player.
She comes from an unconventional background for tennis, to say the
least. The Williams sisters grew up in Compton, a community just south
of downtown Los Angeles that is infamously known as the home of gangsta
rap.
They
learned to play tennis on the public courts in Compton, where they were
coached by their parents, who had no previous tennis experience. In
February 2002, Venus Williams became the first African-American woman in
tennis to be ranked number one. That same year, Serena defeated Venus
at Wimbledon and assumed the number-one position at just twenty years
old. She has won a title in all four Grand Slam tournaments including 66
singles championships, 22 doubles championships, and was also
Gold-Medalist at the 2000 (doubles), 2008 (doubles), and 2012 (singles
and doubles) Olympics. It is safe to say that Serena Williams has been a
force in tennis for almost two decades. Outside of tennis, fashion is
one of her passions. You can find Serena on HSN where her Serena
Williams Signature Statement collection is featured. Serena is also an
International Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF, with a special interest in
global education and community violence prevention. In addition, Serena
created the Serena Williams Fund to help carry out her philanthropic
efforts in the United States.
Yao Chen,
left, and blogger Tavi Gevinson, right, both star in the new calendar,
which has cast 13 women which Pirelli says are of outstanding
professional, social, cultural, sporting and artistic accomplishment
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