Serena Williams Beats Garbiñe Muguruza In Straight Sets To Win Wimbledon

The recovery was not to last: Muguruza’s resolve then finally cracked, Williams breaking to love and converting her second Championship point.

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

Williams must now claim a record-equalling fourth consecutive US Open title to complete one of the few streaks missing from her near-incomparable CV, that calendar slam.

She now holds all four Grand Slam titles at the same time for the second time in her career – the rare “Serena Slam” which she last achieved in 2002-03.

“I just never dreamed I would be out here still, let alone winning and having so much fun”. Nothing personal, they just want to win.

Williams has an impressive overall record 21-4, including 6-2 at Wimbledon and just one Grand Slam win shy of Steffi Graf.

“She refuses defeat. She refuses to lose”, said Williams’ coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, who has helped her win eight of the past 13 Grand Slam tournaments.

The American jumped for joy after becoming the queen of Centre Court once again, with 21-year-old Spaniard reduced to tears.

Muguruza had more than enough power to trade blows from the baseline and when she moved into a 4-2 lead, it seemed an epic shock was on the cards.

With the pressure ratcheted up, the inevitable Serena break back arrived in the eighth game when Muguruza missed with a wild forehand.

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.

It was a voice that Williams heard loud and clear, however, and brought about a kind of tennis played by a female athlete so experienced and knowledgeable, but with a youthful zest not really seen before on a tennis court.

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 was like, OK, do I have to serve again?”

About the possibility of becoming the first player in more than a quarter-century to win the tennis Grand Slam.

Just when it looked like she could force the match into a decisive third set, though, her serve collapsed and Williams forced three match points before the contest suffered an anti-climactic finish.

“I’m playing really good”. And she finds a way, even with her being so nervous, to serve, to hit winners. “Serena is still showing us that she’s world No. 1”.

“I didn’t see the results straightaway, but months later I started seeing the results more and more”.

Muguruza received her second place prize as the audience gave her a standing ovation.

“The toughest thing to accomplish is to stay in the moment”, said Williams.

She’s done it. Serena Williams is the 2015 Wimbledon champion.

She had won Wimbledon, but Serena Williams was talking about New York and the U.S. Open.

Playing in a first Grand Slam Final, Muguruza, who knocked Williams out of last year’s French Open, took an early break to move into a 4-2 lead on the first set.

Despite holding all four majors at the same time twice, she has yet to win all four in the same year (known as completing the Grand Slam).