History calls as Serena and Kerber face off in final

It would have been their ninth meeting in a Grand Slam title match, and fifth at Wimbledon, but first in seven years.

Williams and her sister Venus, 36, have also advanced to the women’s doubles final here, where they will face Hungary’s Timea Babos and Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova.

And if German left-hander Kerber adds Wimbledon’s Venus Rosewater Dish to her Australian Open title, then she will be the owner of two slams yet stand adrift of Williams, who will be the holder of none, on the WTA computer.

Last Thursday, Serena Wiliams won over Russian tennis player Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-0 at the All England Club. Against Venus Williams on Thursday, Kerber converted 71% of her first serves, and she could use a similar performance on Saturday. “I will just try to go out there with a lot of confidence, trying to play my best tennis and trying to give everything I can in the final”. “I mean, I think for anyone else in this whole planet, reaching the final would be a wonderful accomplishment”.

“Right now I feel like it’s pretty good”, Williams said.

“But I saw a little, little opening and it was enough”. But I think that’s what makes me different.

“There’s no question about it: there’s a lot more pressure on Serena Williams”, McEnroe said. “My point about Serena Williams is she just took that girl to pieces & everyone’s talking about her nipples”. Of course I will try to be the next one to win here after Steffi. On a faster surface, Kerber is unlikely to repeat her success. To be fair, her summer didn’t get off to a promising start when she lost in the first round at Roland Garros, but the 28-year-old is proving that she isn’t going to be a one-major wonder.

Designer sunglasses are portals to the past as Patrick Mouratoglou considers how much enjoyment Serena Williams allowed herself after winning a first French Open in more than a decade. “Now I’m just a little bit more calm”. I spent few days there in Las Vegas with Andre and Steffi, with both of them. If she wants something, she usually gets it. She was fighting hard, but she was frustrated.

“It is significant to me”, Williams said. The focus was up and down.

Perhaps the accumulated court time during this fortnight simply took a toll on Venus, who revealed in 2011 that she had Sjongren’s syndrome, which can cause fatigue and joint pain.

Can Serena avoid unforced errors? “That was the plan”.

However, she did concede the world No.1 ranking was important.

“I couldn’t do anything today”, Vesnina said.

And she wound up as the oldest woman in the final four at a major since 1994.

The unseeded American duo, who have won five Wimbledon doubles titles, triumphed 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 on Court One.