Serena Williams is Wimbledon Champion

SERENA Williams beat a battling Garbine Muguruza
6 - 4 6 - 4 to claim her second ‘ Serena Slam ’ and win
her 21 st Grand Slam title in the Wimbledon final on
Saturday .
After losing a close first set and battling bravely to
come back from 5 - 1 down in the second , the 21 - year-
old Spaniard was eventually defeated after one hour
and 23 minutes , to leave Williams to receive the
acclaim of the Centre Crowd .
At 33 years and 289 days , Serena surpasses Martina
Navratilova as the oldest player to win Wimbledon ,
and any of the other three Grand Slams , in the Open
era .
Muguruza , born in Venezuela and raised in Barcelona ,
had insisted facing Serena was a task to be relished
rather than feared.
She was proving true to her bold claim and, by the
time Muguruza moved into a 4 - 2 lead, it seemed an
epic shock was on the cards .
However , Serena had recovered from worse
predicaments earlier in the tournament .
With the pressure ratcheted up , the inevitable Serena
break back arrived in the eighth game when Muguruza
missed with a wild forehand .
Williams scented blood and Muguruza crumbled, a
double - fault on set point gift - wrapping the lead to
Serena in a set that had been the underdog’ s for the
taking .
The American had won 28 of her last 30 tour - level
finals , including her last nine at the majors , and, in
her eighth Wimbledon final , she was finally back in
that muscular groove.
Serena ’ s fierce grimace and clenched fist after
breaking in the fourth game of the second set
suggested the finish line was in sight
But , serving for the match with 5 - 1 and then 5 - 3
leads , Williams was gripped by a bad case of nerves
and Muguruza broke twice to prolong the contest .
Serena ’ s sixth Wimbledon crown brought with it a
slew of other remarkable landmarks that underline her
credentials as one of the greatest female athletes of
all time .
The American ’ s 21 st Grand Slam crown and 68 th
tour - level title earned her a cheque for £ 1 . 8 million .
But it is her legacy rather than her bank balance that
concerns Williams these days and she now holds all
four Grand Slam titles at the same time – the rare
‘ Serena Slam ’ she last achieved in 2002- 03 .
Serena is the first woman to land the French Open
and Wimbledon back- to- back since she last won that
difficult double in 2002 .