Serena Williams is Wimbledon Champion, Having spent the last two weeks saying she would not talk about a conceivable Grand Slam, Serena Williams allowed herself a couple of minutes to make the most of her 6th Wimbledon title before contemplations swung to New York and the tricky calendar year feat.
Williams has a place with a selective club of ladies who have held all four major titles at the same time, and achieved the alleged 'Serena Slam' for the second time with her 6-4 6-4 triumph over Garbine Muguruza in Saturday's Wimbledon final. Be that as it may, there is a considerably more prestigious gang who have won Wimbledon, the Australian, French and US Opens in the same calendar year and Williams wants in.
Just Maureen Connolly (1953), Margaret Court (1970) and Steffi Graf (1988) have achieved the Grand Slam, however Williams stands on the verge of going along with them and triumph at the U.S. Open in September will elastic stamp her enrollment. Like all great champions, it was not long after leaving Wimbledon's hallowed turf before the American's psyche wandered to the new challenge.
"It took me a short time," she clowned. "I think when I did my meeting... after the match, I did the entire presentation, I did the entire walk around the court. I was peaceful, feeling really great. Maybe a brief time after that I started pondering New York.. "At that point I just thought, 'Gracious, man, I've won New York three times in succession. I trust this isn't the year that I go down'."
At 33 years and 289 days, Williams is currently in her own particular restrictive club as the most seasoned player in the professional era to secure a grand slam title, surpassing Martina Navratilova by 26 days What makes her tally of 21 grand slam titles so remarkable is that eight have come after she turned 30, with no sign that her ability to pulverize much more youthful adversaries is on the wane.
In fact, the key to her present stranglehold on the ladies' game, may very well be that she has been there, done it and purchased the T-shirt. "I've quite recently been super relaxed," she said. "I've been taking time each match. I didn't have an easy go this tournament, yet I still simply take it one match at once... "I've learned a ton. That I'm able to do anything. Anyone's able to do anything they really set their brain to."
Williams has a place with a selective club of ladies who have held all four major titles at the same time, and achieved the alleged 'Serena Slam' for the second time with her 6-4 6-4 triumph over Garbine Muguruza in Saturday's Wimbledon final. Be that as it may, there is a considerably more prestigious gang who have won Wimbledon, the Australian, French and US Opens in the same calendar year and Williams wants in.
Just Maureen Connolly (1953), Margaret Court (1970) and Steffi Graf (1988) have achieved the Grand Slam, however Williams stands on the verge of going along with them and triumph at the U.S. Open in September will elastic stamp her enrollment. Like all great champions, it was not long after leaving Wimbledon's hallowed turf before the American's psyche wandered to the new challenge.
"It took me a short time," she clowned. "I think when I did my meeting... after the match, I did the entire presentation, I did the entire walk around the court. I was peaceful, feeling really great. Maybe a brief time after that I started pondering New York.. "At that point I just thought, 'Gracious, man, I've won New York three times in succession. I trust this isn't the year that I go down'."
At 33 years and 289 days, Williams is currently in her own particular restrictive club as the most seasoned player in the professional era to secure a grand slam title, surpassing Martina Navratilova by 26 days What makes her tally of 21 grand slam titles so remarkable is that eight have come after she turned 30, with no sign that her ability to pulverize much more youthful adversaries is on the wane.
In fact, the key to her present stranglehold on the ladies' game, may very well be that she has been there, done it and purchased the T-shirt. "I've quite recently been super relaxed," she said. "I've been taking time each match. I didn't have an easy go this tournament, yet I still simply take it one match at once... "I've learned a ton. That I'm able to do anything. Anyone's able to do anything they really set their brain to."
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