Serena Williams

b. 1981 · American tennis champion & 23-time Grand Slam singles winner

Serena Williams (born 1981) is one of the greatest tennis players in history, holding 23 Grand Slam singles titles — the most in the Open Era. Her career included a near-fatal pulmonary embolism in 2011 and a celebrated return to dominance, the very context in which this remark about recovery was spoken.

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“A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”

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