How Many More Grand Slam Titles Can Serena Williams Win?

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Published: July 12, 2016

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Serena Williams exhausted plenty of sweat equity in attempts to win Grand Slam title No. 22. Now that she's done it, how many more Slams can she win?

Williams ended her major-title drought with a straight-sets 7-5, 6-3 win over Angelique Kerber on Saturday in the 2016 Wimbledon final. Williams ties Steffi Graf for most Slam titles in the Open era. She's two major titles short of holding the all-time record held by Margaret Court. 

Although Williams turns 35 on September 26, she's not talking retirement. Graf retired at age 30. But by then she was no longer No. 1 and had won just one Slam in nearly three years. Williams remains ranked No. 1 and has won five Slams in two years. 

With the Open-era record and Court's 24 within reach, if Williams stays healthy, she could win three to five more Slams. 

She's 1-3 in the last four Grand Slam finals. Had she won the 2015 U.S. Open and split this year's first two Slam titles, Williams would already be tied with Court.

Instead, Williams needed to overcome the heartbreak of getting so close to completing the calendar Slam and failing. 



Her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, believes losing to Roberta Vinci in the semifinals of that U.S. Open left Williams more devastated than she let on. He told tennis writer Mark Hodgkinson, per Wimbledon.org:

If I'm totally honest, I'm not relieved to have the 22nd, I'm relieved to have Serena back. Everything depends on that. I don't look at the reward, I look at how to achieve it. There was something missing for a few months and the thing that was missing was just Serena. The tennis player was there but Serena as a person wasn't really herself, so she was much more beatable.

Now she's back, vintage Serena. She is as aggressive and relentless as ever. At least that's the way she played against Kerber at Wimbledon.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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