{"id":173355,"date":"2025-06-14T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173355"},"modified":"2025-06-14T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:40:36","slug":"serena-williams-honoured-with-princess-of-asturias-award-for-sports-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/serena-williams-honoured-with-princess-of-asturias-award-for-sports-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Honoured with Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Serena Williams, one of the most iconic athletes in the history of modern sport, has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2025, a prestigious Spanish honour that recognises individuals and institutions for excellence and global contribution in various fields, including sports, arts, literature, and science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With&nbsp;<strong>73 career singles titles<\/strong>, including a staggering&nbsp;<strong>23 Grand Slam victories<\/strong>, Serena Williams is widely considered among the&nbsp;<strong>greatest athletes of all time<\/strong>. Her career spanned over two decades and broke barriers not just in tennis, but in global sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Princess of Asturias Award<\/strong>, which carries a&nbsp;<strong>cash prize of \u20ac50,000 ($57,000)<\/strong>, is presented annually in the&nbsp;<strong>northern Spanish city of Oviedo<\/strong>. The ceremony is presided over by&nbsp;<strong>Princess Leonor of Spain<\/strong>&nbsp;and recognises achievements in fields such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social Sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scientific Research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams, one of the most iconic athletes in the history of modern sport, has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 2025, a prestigious Spanish honour that recognises individuals and institutions for excellence and global contribution in various fields, including sports, arts, literature, and science. With&nbsp;73 career singles titles, including a staggering&nbsp;23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-173355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173357,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355\/revisions\/173357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173355"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=173355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}