Williams defeated Sharapova for the seventeenth consecutive time for the loss of six games to advance to her eighth Wimbledon final. In the final she faced major final debutant Garbiñe Muguruza, the young Spaniard who had handed Williams her heaviest defeat at a major, just a year before. Though Williams’ opening service game was broken, she recovered and won the opening set. Williams raced ahead to a double break lead and would serve for the match twice, but the young Spaniard broke the world No. 1 both times. Although Muguruza got the match back on serve, she would still have to serve to stay in the match. Williams broke the Spaniard’s serve to win her sixth Wimbledon title and complete the “Serena Slam 2.0”. The final lasted 83 minutes, with Williams serving 12 aces to 8 double faults, hitting 29 winners to 15 unforced errors, and getting in 37 of 68 first serves. With this victory Serena Williams became the oldest female in the Open Era to win a major singles title, passing the former mark of Martina Navratilova. This win was her twenty-first major singles title, putting her one behind Steffi Graf’s Open Era record, and three behind the all-time mark set by Margaret Court.
Williams broke Muguruza again on her following serve and held again to go up 4-1. It wasn’t even a contest from that point on, with Williams breaking Muguruza without allowing her to even get a point in the next game, setting up a service game for the match. Muguruza showed some signs of life though, and broke Williams to make it 5-2. She then kept herself in it with her next service game. Miraculously, she kept herself in again by fighting off Williams’ serve to get another break and get back on serve.
At that point, Williams was finally able to shut down the comeback, dominating Muguruza to score a break for the match win.
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