Serena Williams, who owns all four tennis grand slam titles
for the second time in her career, has achieved another historic milestone in
the wake of her Wimbledon victory.
The WTA Tour revealed on Tuesday that the world No.1 is the
first top-ranked player ever with more than twice as many points as her nearest
rival.
Records dating to the WTA's 1973 founding show the
33-year-old American's domination to be the greatest of any point in the
rankings' history, with Williams on 13,161 points and Russia's second-ranked
Maria Sharapova on 6,490.
In addition to sweeping the US, French and Australian Opens
plus Wimbledon over the past 12 months, Williams won last year's WTA Finals in
Singapore and the Miami Open in March to help build her runaway rankings margin.
Williams beat Sharapova in the Wimbledon semi-finals and
downed Spain's Garbine Muguruza in last Saturday's final to win her sixth
Wimbledon crown and 21st grand slam title.
That puts Williams one shy of matching Steffi Graf for the
open era-record of 22 grand slam singles crowns and just three shy of Margaret
Court's all-time record of 24.
Williams has won as many grand slam titles as all other
active women's players combined, including Sharapova's five and seven for Venus
Williams, Serena's older sister.
Petra Kvitova, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Victoria Azarenka
have won two major titles each while Samantha Stosur, Ana Ivanovic and
Francesca Schiavone own one each.
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