Serena Williams Wins Sixth Wimbledon Singles Title

Last year at Wimbledonafter exiting to Alize Cornet, Serena
Williamsdeclared: "I know I can do better."

On Saturday at the All England Club came the exclamation point to her
turnaround.

Williams defeated promising Spaniard Garbine Muguruza 6-4 6-4 in
southwest London to complete the "Serena Slam" -- winning four
straight majors -- for the second time in her career and is now well
on the way to making more history at the season's final grand slam.

"I can't believe I'm standing here with another Serena Slam,"
Williams, emulating her feat of 2002-2003, told the crowd.

Indeed if the American triumphs in September at the U.S. Open -- and
the odds are stacked in her favor given the 33-year-old is the
three-time defending champion -- she would become the first player
since Steffi Graf in 1988 to achieve the calendar-year grand slam.

A victory would, too, draw the world No. 1 level with Graf on an Open
Era leading 22 majors.

As if all that wasn't enough, Williams surpassed Martina Navratilova
by nearly four weeks as the oldest women's grand slam winner in the
Open Era.

The 21-year-old Muguruza, appearing in her first grand slam final,
wept in her chair afterward but shouldn't feel overly disappointed.
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.

Muguruza didn't go away tamely, either, making matters interesting
after trailing 5-1 in the second. The 20th seed won plenty of new fans
with her performance at tennis' grandest arena.

"I want to (congratulate) Serena who is showing us she is world No.
1," Muguruza said.

Despite the occasion, it was the Venezuelan-born Muguruza who began
the stronger.

If she was nervous, she didn't play like it.

Williams, by contrast, struck three of her eight double faults in the
first game and was broken much to the delight of those gathered on
Center Court. Muguruza's powerful serve and ground strokes troubled
Williams in the early stages.

But one felt it was only a matter of games before Williams awoke, even
if Muguruza crushed Williams at last year's French Open.
—CNN