The tennis Pro, who in this year bagged alot of tittles like the No 1 women's tennis every week for the second consecutive year. She won 21 Grand slam tittle. moreso, she won 95% of her matches this season.
She made history today as the first time a single woman has been honoured on the magazine's cover since track and field athlete Mary Decker named in 1983.
Sports Illustrated spokesman talks on why she was chosen:
In the end, as you already know, we chose Serena Williams, and even amid such a rich collection of finalists, she was a decisive choice.Sports Illustrated honors her dominance in 2015, when she won 53 of her 56 matches, three of the four Grand Slam events and built the most yawning ranking points gap between her and her closest competitor in tennis history. We honor her, too, for a career of excellence, her stranglehold on the game’s No. 1 ranking and her 21 Grand Slam titles, a total that has her on the brink of Steffi Graf’s Open Era Slam record, which Williams will likely eclipse by mid-summer.
But we are honoring Serena Williams too for reasons that hang in the grayer, less comfortable ether, where issues such as race and femininity collide with the games. Race was used as a cudgel against Williams at Indian Wells in 2001, and she returned the blow with a 14-year self-exile from the tournament. She returned to Indian Wells in ’15, a conciliator seeking to raise the level of discourse about hard questions, the hardest ones, really.
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