Editing Serena Williams (section)

===2000–2001: Olympic gold, US Open final, and Indian Wells boycott===
In 2000, Williams failed to defend her titles in Paris and Indian Wells, although she did win the [[Faber Grand Prix]] in Germany.<ref>{{Cite news |last=The Associated Press |first= |date=2000-02-21 |title=Faber Grand Prix; Serena Williams Routs Chladkova |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/21/sports/plus-tennis-faber-grand-prix-serena-williams-routs-chladkova.html |access-date=2024-05-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Soon afterwards, she missed the [[2000 French Open – Women's singles|French Open]] due to injury.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clarey |first=Christopher |date=2000-05-27 |title=Serena Williams Pulls Out of French Open |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/27/sports/tennis-serena-williams-pulls-out-of-french-open.html |access-date=2024-05-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She recovered and played at the [[2000 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles|Wimbledon Championships]], where she lost to Venus in the semifinals; however, the pair won the doubles title.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wimbledon 2000 Tennis Tournament |url=https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/wimbledon/gbr/2000/w-sl-gbr-01a-2000/draws-and-results/ |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=International Tennis Foundation}}</ref> Her defense of the [[2000 US Open (tennis)|US Open]] title ended when she lost in the quarterfinals to Davenport. Williams and her sister won the gold medal in doubles at the [[Sydney Olympics]] that September,<ref name=Card/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/oly/summer00/news/2000/0927/784564.html |title=Summer Olympics 2000 Williams sisters win gold in women's doubles |work=ESPN |date=28 September 2000 |access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref> and Williams ended the year by winning the [[Toyota Princess Cup]] and finishing at No.6.<ref name=rankingshistory/>

Williams began 2001 by losing to Hingis in the quarterfinals of both the Medibank International and the [[2001 Australian Open – Women's singles|Australian Open]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=99916 |title=Hingis Ousts Serena Williams at Aussie Open |website=abcnews.go.com |date=24 January 2001 |access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref> She and Venus won the [[2001 Australian Open – Women's doubles|doubles event]] at the latter tournament, becoming only the fifth doubles team in history to win all four Grand Slam women's doubles titles during their career, completing a "Career Grand Slam".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://a.espncdn.com/tennis/aus2001/news/2001/0125/1040762.html |title=Williams sisters upset Davenport-Morariu |work=ESPN |date=26 January 2001 |access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref> Her next event was the [[2001 Indian Wells Open – Women's singles|Pacific Life Open]] in [[Indian Wells, California|Indian Wells]], where she defeated Clijsters in the final. During the tournament, Richard Williams stated that racist comments were made to him by spectators.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Doug |date=April 2, 2001 |title=Richard Williams decries fans as racist |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/tennis/stories/2001-03-26-focus-williams.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315211821/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/tennis/stories/2001-03-26-focus-williams.htm |archive-date=March 15, 2015 |access-date=July 13, 2019 |work=USA Today}}</ref> As a result, both Serena and Venus pledged to boycott the event, even though it was a mandatory stop on the WTA tour; Serena's boycott lasted until 2015. Williams then lost to [[Jennifer Capriati]] in the quarterfinals of three tournaments: [[2001 Ericsson Open – Women's singles|Miami Masters]], the [[2001 French Open – Women's singles|French Open]] and [[2001 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles|Wimbledon]]. She claimed her second title of the year at the [[Rogers Cup (tennis)|Rogers Cup]], defeating Capriati in the final. In September, Williams lost to her sister in the final of the US Open, which was the first Grand Slam tournament final played by two sisters during the Open Era. At the 2001 season-ending [[WTA Tour Championships|Tour Championships]], Williams won the championship by walkover when Davenport withdrew due to injury. Williams finished 2001 at No.6 for the second straight year.<ref name=rankingshistory/>