Serena ranks high on Fortune's 40 under 40 list

Serena Williams must love a list. Surely no one has ever reaped so much press away from the sport for eight straight months (and soon that number will go up to 11).

Fresh off her No. 1 showing on Forbes' top-earning female athletes roster and a No. 6 appearance on The Undefeated's controversial Top 50 black athletes list, Williams lands in another lineup. She comes in at No. 7 among Fortune magazine's new 40 Under 40 rankings, sandwiched between the tandems of John and Patrick Collison and John Zimmer and Logan Green. If those names don't ring familiar, they're the respective co-founders of Stripe and Lyft.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, 39, and Facebook czar Mark Zuckerberg, 33, top the list.

Williams, dubbed a "living tennis legend" by Fortune, finds herself swimming in a pond of young C-suite executives and entrepreneurial types for the most part. She's joined among sports-and-entertainment figures by "comedian and mogul" Kevin Hart at No. 17 and "musician and rule breaker" Chance the Rapper at No. 29.

Cheating slightly, the Fortune roster of 40 actually recognizes the achievements of 54 people, some of them doubling or tripling up. Then there's Williams, standing tall and strong at the aforementioned No. 6 slot. And so we see, once again, that tennis remains among the most solitary of callings.

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