NEW YORK, NY, USA – Serena Williams has gotten yet another accolade for her phenomenal 2015 season, being named the Associated Press Female Athlete Of The Year for the fourth time.

In a vote by US editors and news directors, Williams was chosen in somewhat of a landslide, earning 50 first place votes – soccer star Carli Lloyd finished in second place with 14 first place votes. UFC stars Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm and basketball player Breanna Stewart rounded out the Top 5.

Williams had one of her very best seasons in 2015, collecting three Grand Slam titles – the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon – to bring her career haul to 21, holding the World No.1 ranking from start to finish, and winning a whopping 53 of her 56 matches during the year (the only losses coming to Petra Kvitova, Belinda Bencic and Roberta Vinci at Madrid, Toronto and the US Open).

Associated Press Female Athlete Of The Year is the latest in a long list of accolades Williams has received for her dynamite 2015 season – she earned the WTA Year-End World No.1 Singles Ranking presented by Dubai Duty Free, she was voted WTA Player Of The Year and Sports Illustrated Sportsperson Of The Year, and earlier this week she was named ITF Women’s World Champion as well.

She’s now been Associated Press Female Athlete Of The Year four times – 2002, 2009, 2013 and 2015. The only other women’s tennis player to win four is Chris Evert (1974, 1975, 1977 and 1980).

The only woman who’s won more than four times is Babe Didrikson (one for athletics and five for golf).

Other women’s tennis players to have received the award are Helen Jacobs, Helen Wills Moody, Alice Marble, Maureen Connolly, Althea Gibson, Maria Bueno, Billie Jean King, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Tracy Austin, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Martina Hingis and Jennifer Capriati.

Williams will kick off her 2016 season in two weeks at Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia. It’s a team exhibition event that includes singles and mixed doubles – she will represent the USA with Jack Sock.

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