American tennis player Serena Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan. She was raised in Compton, California, where she learned tennis from her father on public courts. She turned professional in 1995, when she was 14 years old, and she won the U.S. Open, her first major tournament victory, in 1999, when she was 17 years old.
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