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A new event at an unfamiliar venue, the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club welcomes the PGA Tour back to Detroit.

The USWNT and France, the leading favorites heading into the Womens World Cup, meet in the quarterfinals on Friday afternoon.

In March, Williams became the NBA all-time career leader in points off the bench.

Twenty-three time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams has been honored by General Mills as the face of the new Wheaties cereal box.In her picture, Williams is outfitted in a white dress similar to the one she was wearing when she lifted her seven Wimbledon trophies. Video Shows Babys Rescue From Plastic Bag in Georgia Woods A seven-time womens player of the year, Williams was ranked world No.1 in singles eight times between 2002 and 2017. She has also earned 14 major doubles titles to total 72 career titles on the Womens Tennis Association WTA Tour.In 2001, Wheaties paid homage to a true champion and an icon by putting her on the cover of a Wheaties Box, the former world No.1 wrote on Instagram. Althea Gibson was the FIRST Black Woman tennis player to be on the box. Today, I am honored to be the second. A Complete Guide to 2020 Democratic Primary Debates Williams and her older sister Venus made their debuts on the professional circuit in the mid 1990s. Since then, Serena has won 810 career titles and inspired the careers of several other black players on Tour.Shes a mother, a very active entrepreneur, an activist, a fashion designer, and all of this while being one of the best tennis players in the world, Taylor Gessell, manager in brand experience at General Mills, said in a release. It truly signifies a championship moment. 13-Year-Old Charged in Possible Hate Attack on NJ Mother She continues to inspire and spark change to make us all better, Tiffani Daniels, marketing manager for Wheaties, said.Williams is the first tennis player to be featured on the Wheaties box since Andre Agassi in 2004, and the fourth female tennis play of all time. Ten other tennis players have earned their appearances on the box: Ellsworth Vines 1934, Don Budge 1939, Alice Marble 1946, Jack Kramer 1952, Chris Evert 1997, Arthur Ashe 1997, Pete Sampras 2000, Althea Gibson 2001 and Agassi 2004.The limited-edition Williams Wheaties box will be available across the United States for the next month.Photo Credit: OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.

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