Serena Williams has been awarded the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports activities. This was determined by the jury, chaired by Teresa Perales, which met for 2 days in Oviedo to decide on the winner from among the many 30 candidates from 13 nationalities
The 23-time tennis Grand Slam winner succeeds Carolina Marin, Olympic badminton gold medallist in Rio 2016, three-time world champion and eight-time continental champion (seven in European Championships and one in European Video games).
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Serena Williams’ sporting deserves are unquestionable. She gained 73 titles and 23 majors in a profession that spanned 4 many years: from her skilled debut on the age of 14 in October 1995 on the Bell Problem in Quebec (she misplaced 6-1, 6-1 to Anne Miller) to her third-round defeat on the 2022 US Open to Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic (7-5, 6-7(4), 6-1).On July 8, 2002, Serena reached primary on the earth for the primary time. She could be primary for the final time in Might 2017. She spent 319 weeks on the prime of the rankings, 186 of them consecutively. She gained 4 Olympic gold medals (singles in London 2012 and doubles in Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008 and London 2012). In doubles, she gained 14 Grand Slams, plus two extra in combined doubles.
In 1999, she gained her first Grand Slam: the US Open. In 2002, she was topped at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. The Australian Open would are available in 2003. She achieved the primary of her two consecutive Grand Slams (not in the identical season) of her profession. The second would include the 2014 US Open and the primary three majors of the calendar in 2015.
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Serena Williams: from baby prodigy to social icon
Her story is that of a racquet prodigy, as was cinematically portrayed in ‘The Williams Methodology’. She reigned on the courtroom earlier than and after turning into a mom as a result of motherhood is just not the tip of a sporting profession. The Williams model (that of Serena and her sister Venus) altered the foundations of ladies’s tennis: serves that approached 200 km/h or photographs supported by a bodily energy at all times in the hunt for the ‘winner’.
Serena put her picture and character on the service of what she thought-about truthful. Her firm, Serena Ventures, helps initiatives such because the building of colleges in Africa and social sources in Compton, the Los Angeles ghetto neighborhood the place she grew up. She normalized her determine with garments that she designed herself to ship the message of acceptance to your physique and measurement within the face of the bombardment to which those that deviate from the canons of magnificence established by posturing are subjected.
Serena Williams’ candidacy was chosen from the opposite 29 submitted. For the second 12 months in a row, the award goes to a girl after Carolina Marin was honored in 2024. The jury for this version was made up of Teresa Perales (president); Paloma del Rio (secretary); Carlos Carpio, deputy director of MARCA, Teresa Bernadas, Joaquin Folch-Rusinol, Vicente Jimenez, Santiago Nolla, Jennifer Pareja, Edurne Pasaban, Samuel Sanchez, Sitapha Savane, Alberto Suarez, Joan Vehils and Theresa Zabell.
Serena Williams: ninth lady awarded and fourth feminine tennis participant
Among the many recipients of the Sports activities Awards, established in 1987, are Sebastian Coe, the Olympic refugee staff, the All Blacks, the Gasol brothers (Pau and Marc), Haile Gebrselassie, Rafa Nadal, Fernando Alonso, Eliud Kipchoge, Carl Lewis, Carlos Sainz and Severiano Ballesteros, amongst others.
It’s the ninth time that the award has gone to a girl, and the fourth tennis participant to obtain it after Martina Navratilova (1994), Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (1998) and Steffi Graf (1999). The checklist of feminine athletes within the checklist is accomplished by athletes Hassiba Boulmerka (1995) and Yelena Isinbayeva (2009), skier Lindsey Vonn (2019) and Paralympic swimmer Teresa Perales (2021) and the aforementioned Carolina Marin (2024). Tennis has obtained this award for the fifth time after Rafa Nadal gained it in 2008.
Princess of Asturias Award for Sports activities
- 1987 Sebastian Coe (Athletics)
- 1988 Juan Antonio Samaranch (Olympism)
- 1989 Seve Ballesteros (Golf)
- 1990 Sito Pons (Motorcycling)
- 1991 Sergey Bubka (Athletics)
- 1992 Miguel Indurain (Biking)
- 1993 Javier Sotomayor (Athletics)
- 1994 Martina Navratilova (Tennis)
- 1995 Hassiba Boulmerka (Athletics)
- 1996 Carl Lewis (Athletics)
- 1997 Spanish Marathon Crew (Athletics)
- 1998 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Tennis)
- 1999 Steffi Graf (Tennis)
- 2000 Lance Armstrong (Biking)
- 2001 Manel Estiarte (Water polo)
- 2002 Brazil Nationwide Soccer Crew
- 2003 Tour de France (Biking)
- 2004 Hicham El Guerrouj (Athletics)
- 2005 Fernando Alonso (Motorsport)
- 2006 Spain males’s nationwide basketball staff
- 2007 Michael Schumacher (Motorsport)
- 2008 Rafael Nadal (Tennis)
- 2009 Yelena Isinbayeva (Athletics)
- Spain nationwide soccer staff (Soccer)
- 2011 Haile Gebrselassie (Athletics)
- 2012 Iker Casillas/Xavi Hernandez (Soccer)
- 2013 Jose Maria Olazabal (Golf)
- 2014 New York Metropolis Marathon (Athletics)
- 2015 Pau Gasol / Marc Gasol (Basketball)
- 2016 Javier Gomez Noya (Triathlon)
- 2017 New Zealand Rugby Crew
- 2018 Reinhold Messner / Krzysztof Wielicki (Mountaineering)
- 2019 Lindsey Vonn (Snowboarding)
- 2020 Carlos Sainz (Rallies)
- 2021 Teresa Perales (Paralympic swimming)
- 2022 Basis and Refugee Olympic Crew (Olympism)
- 2023 Eliud Kipchoge (Athletics)
- 2024 Carolina Marin (Badminton)
- 2025 Serena Williams (Tennis)
The Sports activities Award is the fifth of the eight prizes awarded yearly by the Princess of Asturias Basis, after the Communication and Humanities Award was given to the German thinker and essayist of South Korean origin Byung-Chul Han, the Literature Award to the author Eduardo Mendoza, the Social Sciences Award to the American sociologist and demographer Douglas Massey and the Arts Award to the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.
Like the remainder of the awards, the prize consists of a replica of a sculpture by Joan Miro -a consultant image of the award-, a money prize of 50,000 euros, a diploma and a badge.
After the Sports activities Award, the Concordia (June 4), Scientific and Technical Analysis (June 12) and Worldwide Cooperation (June 18) awards will nonetheless be determined. In its forty third version, 354 candidates from 60 nationalities have been proposed for the Princess of Asturias Awards, which can be introduced on the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo in October.
