•
Serena Williams has advanced to the final at a Grand
Slam for the 16th time; she is 12-3 in her 15 GS
final appearances to date
•
Serena is making her 6th final appearance at
Wimbledon; she is 3-2 in her 5 finals to date at the
All-England Club
•
At least one of the Williams sisters has advanced to
10 of 11 Wimbledon finals since 2000; including 4
all- Williams finals: 2002 (Serena), 2003 (Serena),
2008 (Venus) and 2009 (Serena)
•
The top seed has won the title at Wimbledon only
twice in last 12 years – 2003 (Serena) and 2006
(Mauresmo); in the Open Era, the top seed has won the
Wimbledon title 20 times (including 1985 when
Navratilova won the title as co-No.1 seed w/ Evert)
•
Serena has been extended to 3 sets in 4 of her 15
Grand Slam finals, winning all 4 such matches; she
has won all 4 tiebreaks that she has played in Grand
Slam finals
•
Serena will remain at No.1 in the WTA Tour Singles
Rankings after Wimbledon, extending her overall weeks
at No.1 to at least 110.
•
Serena enters the final ranked joint 6th in the Open
Era for most career Grand Slam wins; a win today
would place her equal 5th with sister Venus
OPEN
ERA – MOST CAREER GRAND SLAM WINS (through SF at
Wimbledon)
306-49
Martina Navratilova
299-37
Chris Evert
278-32
Steffi Graf
210-54
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario
199-43
Venus Williams
198-51
Lindsay Davenport
198-30
SERENA WILLIAMS
•
Through SF, Serena has hit 80 aces, the highest total
ever recorded at Wimbledon, topping her previous
tournament mark of 72 (2009)
•
Serena is bidding to defend her Wimbledon title for
the 2nd time (2002, 2003); Serena joins Billie Jean
King, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Venus
Williams as the only 5 women in the Open Era to
defend their singles titles at Wimbledon; Serena is
the only one not to defend the title more than once
•
Serena won here in 2002, 2003 and 2009; in the Open
Era (since 1968), only 4 players have won 3 or more
Wimbledon titles:
OPEN
ERA: WIMBLEDON SINGLES TITLES
Martina
Navratilova 9
Steffi
Graf 7
Venus
Williams 5
Billie
Jean King* 4
Chris
Evert 3
Serena
Williams 3
*also
won pre-Open Era titles
•
Serena is going for her 13th Grand Slam title, which
would put her in sole possession of 6th place on the
all-time
leaderboard,
breaking her tie with Billie Jean King:
PLAYER - Aust.Open - R Garros -
Wimbledon - US Open Total
Margaret
Smith Court* -11 - 5 - 3 - 5 - 24
Steffi
Graf - 4 - 6 - 7 - 5 - 22
Helen
Wills Moody - (DNP) - 4 - 8 - 7 - 19
Martina
Navratilova - 3 - 2 - 9 - 4 - 18
Chris
Evert - 2 -7 - 3 - 6 - 18
Billie
Jean King* - 1 - 1 - 6 - 4 - 12
Serena
Williams - 5 - 1 - 3 - 3 - 12
Monica
Seles - 4 - 3 - 0 - 2 - 9
Maureen
Connolly -1 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 9
Bold
denotes active player; *also won pre-Open Era titles
•
Serena has yet to drop a set at this year’s
Wimbledon. 27 women have previously won the Wimbledon
title without dropping a set (all-time)
•
Serena has hit 10 or more aces in a match 11 times
this year (including 4 times at this year’s
Wimbledon); she hit a season-best 19 aces in both her
3r win (vs. Cibulkova) and 4r win (vs. Sharapova)
SERENA WILLIAMS: 2010
MOST ACES IN A MATCH
TOURNAMENT (RND) - ACES - OPPONENT -
RESULT
Wimbledon
(4r) 19 Maria Sharapova W 76(9) 64
Wimbledon
(3r) 19 Dominika Cibulkova W 60 75
Australian
Open (QF) 17 Victoria Azarenka W 46 76(4) 62
Wimbledon
(1r) 15 Michelle Larcher de Brito W 60 64
Roland
Garros (QF) 13 Samantha Stosur L 62 67(2) 86
Australian
Open (SF) 12 Li Na W 76(4) 76(1)
Wimbledon
(QF) 11 Li Na W 75 63
Australian
Open (F) 11 Justine Henin W 64 36 62
Sydney
(SF) 11 Aravane Rezai W 36 75 64
Australian
Open (4r) 10 Samantha Stosur W 64 62
Roland
Garros (1r) 10 Stefanie Voegele W 76(2) 62
Grand
Slam Final Histories
Among
active players, Serena Williams has reached the most
Grand Slam singles finals. Fifteen active players
have reached a Grand Slam singles final; only 8 have
won a Grand Slam singles title.
Serena
will face Vera Zvonareva in the final
