Serena Williams claimed her sixth Wimbledon Championship title by beating Spain’s Garbine Muguruza 6-4 6-4 in the women’s singles final. She now has 21 Grand Slam titles. In her long and ever more remarkable career, Serena Williams has won all the major tournaments at least three times. She has won Olympic gold in singles and doubles. She has won WTA Tour events large and small. It’s Williams’s second self-styled ‘‘Serena Slam’’ of four majors in a row; she also did it in 2002-03.
This was also Serena’s 21st Grand Slam singles title, putting her just one behind Graf, whose 22 are the best of the Open era, and just three behind Court, an attacking Australian who won 24.
At 33, she is the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam tournament in the Open era of professional tennis, and it comes 16 years after her first, at the 1999 US Open. Only Maureen Connolly in 1953, Margaret Court in 1970, and Steffi Graf in 1988 have won all four majors in a season. And only Court (24) and Graf (an Open-era record 22) own more Grand Slam singles titles than Williams.
The grand slam is comprised of the four major tennis events. They are
1) Australian open
2) French Open
3) Wimbledon
4) US Open
The French Open, also known as Roland Garros, which is played in the city of love: Paris, France.
Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and is widely considered the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877.
GK Question
- Who was the winner of the inaugural Wimbledon Championship? Spencer Gore
- Who won the 2014 Men’s Wimbledon Championship? Novak Djokovic
