In addition, Serena and her sister Venus won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, the second most for a pair in the open era, and three doubles gold medals at the Olympics. Serena Williams was born in Saginaw , Michigan, but was raised in Los Angeles , where she learned tennis from her father on public courts. She turned professional in , when she was 14 years old. Williams learned tennis from her father on the public courts in Los Angeles and turned professional in , one year after her sister Venus. Possessing powerful serves and ground strokes and superb athleticism, the sisters soon attracted much attention.

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A new women's football team is coming to Los Angeles, and it will have some pretty big names running the show from the top. The National Women's Soccer League has confirmed the tentatively-named Angel City will begin competing in the national competition from after a "majority woman-founded group" secured the exclusive rights to bring a franchise to LA. Speaking to AP, Portman said she heard Abby Wambach, a former US national team player, speak at a Time's Up event and started thinking about how female athletes are regarded in society. And it was just kind of a revolution to see my son and his friends, these little eight-year-old boys at the time, wanting to wear their Rapinoe jerseys, and Alex Morgan jerseys," Portman said. It wasn't unusual to them at all.