She has won all 4 Slams, which is more than Federer or Sampras can claim. She struggles with her weight, but comes thru at the end.
The Williams sisters give a rodent's posterior about what underachieving, jealous, prejudiced tennis fans think. In the latest Tennis mag, the last article is about how they were right and the establishment was wrong. The article by Wertheim traces all the anti-Williams comments from the beginning of their career, starting with "no one can come into the pros without going thru the junior circuit." In his comparisions with similar situations of other players and how the media reacted to them, it is quite clear the treatment of the Williams' was different all the time. The reasons are obvious (to those who don't like to fool themselves all the time). Even before this article, Chris Evert had apologized to Serena for the unwarranted "open letter" she wrote to her a couple of years ago.