Serena Slam: Williams Wins Another Wimbledon Title

She has won WTA Tour events large and small. It’s not very often that Williams loses grand slam finals: She improved to 21-4, last tasting defeat at the 2011 U.S. Open against Samantha Stosur.

Wimbledon champion Serena Williams has insisted “I feel like I’ll be okay” in her quest for the elusive calendar grand slam.

“I did the whole presentation, I did the whole walk around the court; I was peaceful, feeling really good”.

Serena Williams is still down a break, trailing 3-2 with Garbine Muguruza to serve.

Serena Williams struggled to take in the achievement of winning a second “Serena Slam” after beating Garbine Muguruza to claim a sixth Wimbledon title.

This story has been corrected to show that Williams is three titles behind Margaret Court, not two. It was an awkward and horrific start to the world number one.

But she has endured like few athletes in any sport, and at 33, she is in the midst of the most extended stretch of excellence of her career. Serena will, however, have the opportunity to join an elite club of players who have won all the grand slams in one year.

Despite her near-walkover against Sharapova, Williams has specialised in comeback victories this season, rallying from a set down four times to claim the French Open title. The fight finally returned to Williams as she won the next four games in a row.

But the true Grand Slam is one that is achieved in the same year, with all the expectations and gathering pressures that accompany it.

Asked about the attention and hype that will explode when she arrives at Flushing Meadows the end of August, Williams said, “You know what?” I just think she was playing well. You know that you don’t have so many chances to win the match.

The 20th-seeded Muguruza, whose ranking will climb into the top-10 for the first time after her maiden appearance in a Grand Slam final, was overcome by emotion in her on-court interview. Less than a half-hour in, Muguruza led 4-2, thanks in part to her big, flat groundstrokes that pushed Williams around. “I honestly wouldn’t have thought about it past year after winning the U.S. Open that I would win the Serena Slam”.

World number one Williams predicted that the Venezuela-born youngster will win a Wimbledon title after consigning her to defeat and Muguruza thinks she could be proved right. She has now won eight major championships since turning 30.

She has now won seven major championships in her 30s.

But Williams eventually found her rhythm to break back twice and win four games in a row to take the first set.

The match looked to be over quickly after that as Williams forced a double break, and then held to love to go up 5-1. Radwanska had already hit a forehand return, and only challenged after her ball had bounced on the other side of the net and Muguruza lined up her next shot.

In the first game Saturday, Williams contributed three double-faults — she wound up with eight — and missed a forehand long, then a backhand long, to get broken.

At the fifth time of asking, Muguruza broke Williams once more however – only in truth managing to prolong her agony.