CHARLESTON, SC -- This year's Family Circle Cup Tennis Championship in South Carolina will feature the 5 best female players in the world. Sponsored by the Family Circle Cup, the event will take place April 7th through the 15th on Daniel Island. The stars of women's tennis will battle it out at the $15-million state-of-the-art facility, built for the purpose of hosting this world-class event.
Players will include Maria Sharapova, who at 19 years old is ranked #1 in the world, Justine Henin, Amélie Mauresmo, Svetlana Kuznetsova, and Martina Hingis. Rounding out the excitement will be reigning Australian Open champion and former World #1 player, Serena Williams.
The favorite coming into the tournament is Serena Williams, fresh off her win at this year's Australian Open. Serena was born in Saginaw, Michigan. When she and her four sisters were young, their parents, Richardand Oracene (also called Brandy), lived in the poor Los Angeles suburb of Compton. Her father dreamed of making at least one of his daughters a tennis superstar, hoping that involvement in sports would give them a way out of that neighborhood.
When Serena was four and a half, she won her first tournament, and she entered 49 tournaments before the age of 10, winning 46 of them. At one point, she replaced her sister Venus as the number one ranked tennis player aged 12 or under in California.
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