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Returning to Grand Slam tennis after a year away with health problems, Serena Williams opened her Wimbledon title defense Tuesday by beating Aravane Rezai in three sets - then burst into tears on Centre Court....

For all the fluidity at Wimbledon in women’s singles, the tournament ended as most predicted. It concluded with Serena Williams hoisting another trophy, delivering another barrage of aces and taking another step forward among tennis’s all-time greats. It ended, 6-3, 6-2, against Vera Zvonareva on Saturday afternoon, in a little more than an hour, a victory stunning, lopsided and complete.

The Williams sisters held court at the Australian Open on Thursday, a back-to-back Venus-Serena doubleheader that left the siblings still in the mix for yet another Grand Slam singles title....

Serena Williams was fined at least a record $82,500 for her U.S. Open tirade and could be suspended from that tournament if she has another “major offense” at any Grand Slam in the next two years, Grand Slam administrator Bill Babcock told The Associated Press on Monday.

Serena Williams kept telling herself she was facing just another foe in the Wimbledon final Saturday, just another woman who hits the ball quite hard, just another player trying to deny her a Grand Slam title.

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Serena Williams’s bid for a third consecutive Grand Slam title ended after losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarterfinals of the French Open.

Serena Williams got no argument from Dinara Safina as she rolled to her fourth Australian Open singles title and 10th Grand Slam singles title by the score of 6-0, 6-3.