Shout out to 33 year old Serena Williams who did it yet again. With over 90 wins in her career, the "tennis prodigy" seems to be playing the tennis of her career even over the age of 30 (to most know as the decline stage)
In July 2015 we saw Serena win her sixth Wimbledon title, concluding her 28th consecutive victory in a Grand Slam match.
If the greatness of this achievement is a bit too hard to comprehend (we forgive you non tennis enthusiasts), here are quick facts to break it down:
"Serena’s 21 Grand Slam victories are now the second most of all time since the Open Era began in 1968. Only Steffi Graf, the great German player who won 22 Slams in the 1980s and 1990s, has more. With four more titles, Serena would pass Margaret Smith Court with the most Grand Slam championships of all time, Open Era or not."
"Serena is the current champion of each of the four Grand Slam events: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. Should she win her seventh U.S. Open this September, she’d become only the second player to win each of the four majors in the same calendar year. (Graf accomplished the feat in 1988.)"
"At 33 years and nine months, Serena became the oldest women’s tennis player to ever win a Grand Slam title, eclipsing Martina Navratilova, who won Wimbledon in 1990 when she was a month younger than Williams is now."
JULY SHOUTOUT