Williams wins Wimbledon title
July 11, 2015
Serena Williams has won her sixth Wimbledon championship and 21st Grand Slam title with a dominant 6-4, 6-4 win over 21-year-old Garbine Muguruza.
The American has now won all four Grand Slam titles in a row - the "Serena Slam" - for the second time in her career.
If Williams wins her 69th singles title at the US Open in two months, she will become the first women's player to secure a calendar-year Grand Slam since the German Steffi Graff in 1988.
The odds were stacked against Venezuela-born Muguruza, whose enthusiastic style has been a refreshing addition to Wimbledon.
Williams was off the pace in the first set, serving eight double-faults and trailing 4-2 against the impressive 21-year-old.
Muguruza, who is expected to jump from 20th to ninth in the rankings, fired a wild forehand out, which could have made it 5-2 and let the world No. 1 back into the set.
Serena broke back, ramping up the pressure and eventually claimed the first set, 6-4. Williams was thoroughly dominant thereafter, serving for the game at 5-1 before Muruguza staged a gutsy fightback.
She broke Williams twice and saved a late match point. But the 33-year-old then broke back to love at 5-4 to secure the win and become the oldest female winner at the All England Club.
Williams is one Grand Slam behind Graf on the open era list and two behind all-time leader Margaret Court Smith.