Is Serena Williams The Best Women’s Tennis Player Of All Time After Winning Wimbledon?

Ho hum, Serena Williams won Wimbledon again. With her 6-4, 6-4 victory over 21-year-old Spaniard Garbiñe Muguruza, Williams locked up her 21st career Grand Slam title and her sixth title at Wimbledon. Here is the final point of the match, after which Williams was surprisingly subdued:

With the win, Williams won her fourth straight Grand Slam title, giving her another “Serena Slam” for winning each of the last four Grand Slams. However, this win was historic, as this is the first time that Williams has ever won each of the first three major tournaments in a calendar year, meaning that she can potentially bring home her first career Grand Slam if she wins at the U.S. Open.

However, Williams is not worried, because she is aware of how dominant she has been over the last year, even if she doesn’t win the U.S. Open.

Her 21 Grand Slams also puts her directly behind Steffi Graf’s record of 22 for most major tournament wins in the Open Era. Graf is also the last woman to win all four tournaments in a calendar year, so a potential Williams win at the U.S. Open later this year would tie her with Graf in a number of ways. Williams is still a few Grand Slam wins away from Margaret Court’s all-time record of 24, but at 33 years old and still at the top of her game, it’s totally reasonable to think that Williams can take the top spot away from Court by the end of 2016.

If there was any debate before, Williams finally became the undisputed greatest women’s tennis player of all-time today. Barring an unexpected retirement, she will almost certainly take down Graf’s Open Era record and Court’s all-time record, and she will likely do it with the ease that she has dispatched just about every foe that she has faced. The only hope is that she celebrates each of her future wins by balancing the tournament’s trophy on her head.