Serena Williams makes history with Wimbledon win, getting 22nd Grand Slam title

Serena Williams has won Saturday her seventh Wimbledon title and made yet another mark in the tennis record books.

Williams beat Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3 in Saturday’s final, a victory that gives her 22 Grand Slam singles titles in her career. She is now tied with Steffi Graf for the most major titles in tennis’s Open era, which began in 1968. Margaret Court holds the all-time record, with 24.

Williams has pursued this record-tying title since she won Wimbledon last year. But she lost in the semifinals of last year’s U.S. Open, where she had a chance to become the first woman since Graf in 1988 to win all four Grand Slam titles in the same season.

Earlier this year, Williams lost in the final of the Australian Open, against Kerber. In the French Open final, she lost to Garbiñe Muguruza.

Source: MarketWatch