2017 Most Important Moments in Sports edition: Moments #7, #6, and #5

#7 Aditi Ashok, the first Indian woman to win a Ladies European Tour (LET) title in 2016, repeated as a LET winner in 2017 by winning the Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Open.. Ashok also earned her Priority List Category 17 status for the 2017 LPGA Tour season. The 19-year-old also qualified for the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship on the LPGA, becoming the first from India to play in the prestigious meet. 

#6 Twenty-one years into the league, the WNBA has its second four-time champion with the Minnesota Lynx (the first was the Houston Comets, which won the league’s first four titles). Sylvia Fowles was named MVP for the Finals. 

#5 Serena Williams continued her winning ways. In 2017, while eight weeks pregnant, Williams claimed her 23rd major singles title by defeating her sister Venus to capture her seventh Australian Open. Williams went the entire tournament without dropping a set.