Serena Williams

American 1227 WTA rankingWTA 10 points 44 years 175 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Venus Williams (31)vs Victoria Azarenka (23)vs Maria Sharapova (22)vs Jennifer Capriati (17)vs Jelena Jankovic (14)vs Justine Henin (14)

Match log

2026

WimbledonGrass, June
R128LMaya Joint3-6 7-6(6) 3-6

2022

Us OpenHard, August
R32LAjla Tomljanovic5-7 7-6(4) 1-6
R64WAnett Kontaveit7-6(4) 2-6 6-2
R128WDanka Kovinic6-3 6-3
CincinnatiHard, August
R64LEmma Raducanu4-6 0-6
TorontoHard, August
R32LBelinda Bencic2-6 4-6
R64WNuria Parrizas Diaz6-3 6-4
WimbledonGrass, June
R128LHarmony Tan5-7 6-1 6-7(7)

2021

WimbledonGrass, June
R128LAliaksandra Sasnovich3-3 RET
Roland GarrosClay, May
R16LElena Rybakina3-6 5-7
R32WDanielle Collins6-4 6-4
R64WMihaela Buzarnescu6-3 5-7 6-1
R128WIrina Camelia Begu7-6(6) 6-2
ParmaClay, May
R16LKaterina Siniakova6-7(4) 2-6
R32WLisa Pigato6-3 6-2
RomeClay, May
R32LNadia Podoroska6-7(6) 5-7
Australian OpenHard, February
SFLNaomi Osaka3-6 4-6
QFWSimona Halep6-3 6-3
R16WAryna Sabalenka6-4 2-6 6-4
R32WAnastasia Potapova7-6(5) 6-2
R64WNina Stojanovic6-3 6-0
R128WLaura Siegemund6-1 6-1
Yarra Valley ClassicHard, January
SFLAshleigh BartyW/O
QFWDanielle Collins6-2 4-6 [10-6]
R16WTsvetana Pironkova6-1 6-4
R32WDaria Saville6-1 6-4

2020

Roland GarrosClay, September
R64LTsvetana PironkovaW/O
R128WKristie Ahn7-6(2) 6-0
Us OpenHard, August
SFLVictoria Azarenka6-1 3-6 3-6
QFWTsvetana Pironkova4-6 6-3 6-2
R16WMaria Sakkari6-3 6-7(6) 6-3
R32WSloane Stephens2-6 6-2 6-2
R64WMargarita Gasparyan6-2 6-4
R128WKristie Ahn7-5 6-3
CincinnatiHard, August
R16LMaria Sakkari7-5 6-7(5) 1-6
R32WArantxa Rus7-6(6) 3-6 7-6(0)
LexingtonHard, August
QFLShelby Rogers6-1 4-6 6-7(5)
R16WVenus Williams3-6 6-3 6-4
R32WBernarda Pera4-6 6-4 6-1
Fed Cup QLS R1: USA vs LATHard, February
RRWJelena Ostapenko7-6(4) 7-6(3)
RRLAnastasija Sevastova6-7(5) 6-3 6-7(4)
Australian OpenHard, January
R32LQiang Wang4-6 7-6(2) 5-7
R64WTamara Zidansek6-2 6-3
R128WAnastasia Potapova6-0 6-3
AucklandWon the titleHard, January
FWJessica Pegula6-3 6-4Won the title
SFWAmanda Anisimova6-1 6-1
QFWLaura Siegemund6-4 6-3
R16WChristina Mchale3-6 6-2 6-3
R32WCamila Giorgi6-3 6-2

2019

Us OpenHard, August
FLBianca Andreescu3-6 5-7
SFWElina Svitolina6-3 6-1
QFWQiang Wang6-1 6-0
R16WPetra Martic6-3 6-4
R32WKarolina Muchova6-3 6-2
R64WCaty Mcnally5-7 6-3 6-1
R128WMaria Sharapova6-1 6-1

Serena Williams

It began on the public courts of Compton, where Richard Williams coached his daughters to a plan the sport doubted until it came true. Serena Williams won her first major at the 1999 US Open at 17 and her last at the 2017 Australian Open, beating her sister Venus Williams in the final while eight weeks pregnant. In between she twice held all four majors at once, the Serena Slam of 2002-03 and again in 2014-15, and spent 319 weeks at world No. 1. Her 23 major titles run seven Australian Opens, seven Wimbledons, six US Opens and three at Roland Garros.

The serve was the finest the women's game has produced. The last chapter was the pursuit of Margaret Court's all-time mark of 24: four more major finals in 2018 and 2019, all lost, after a delivery that nearly killed her. She collected 73 career titles before her farewell, an evolution rather than a retirement, at the 2022 US Open at 40.

Tales

Tennis families

The family business: Cruz Hewitt debuts where his father won, and he is far from the only one

Twenty-two years. That is how long it has been since Lleyton Hewitt won the title in Washington, and this week his son came through qualifying into the main draw of the same tournament. Cruz Hewitt is 17, ranked outside the top 600, and plays Marcos Giron in the first round. It is his first ATP main draw, and it is a smaller novelty than it sounds. The tour is thick with players whose surname arrived before they did.

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