Top 5 Grand Slam victories of Serena Williams 

Serena Williams started her professional tennis career at the age of 16 and she has never looked back since. Aged 36, she has 39 major titles and 4 Olympic Gold medals to her name. Like Roger Federer said, she is the greatest Tennis player of all time. She has a win percentage of 85.56 in her singles career, which speaks volumes. Partnering her elder sister and singles rival, Venus Williams, she has had huge success in the doubles as well.

The highlight of Serena's career is the dominance. She is the only player to have won 10 Grand Slam titles in two separate decades. She has been no.1 in WTA Rankings for 319 weeks with record equaling 186 consecutive weeks from February 2013 to September 2016. Serena's achievements are incredible. Especially the 2017 Australian Open triumph. She won the slam despite being pregnant for 8 weeks!

Serena's strength lies in her consistent and accurate serves. She is a textbook baseline player. Her game is built around the swift control of the serves and the returns. Serena's serves are powerful and accurate, which can be considered a big weapon in the game.

Serena has played over 900 games in her singles career and it is easy to say that she has won most of them. Venus Williams, Justin Henin, Maria Sharapova and Martina Hingis were her main rivals. The fact that she managed to dominate her title rivals is astounding. There has been some epic encounters between Serena and her title rivals.

Here are the top 5 victories of Serena Williams in Grand Slams

#5 Serena Williams v Irina Spirlea 1998 Australian Open First Round

In her first Grand Slam aged 16, Serena outplayed the then sixth-seeded Irina Spirlea 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Australian Open. She managed to lose the first set despite leading 5-3. Instead of dwelling, she held her own in the next two sets and went on to win the game.

She was later knocked out of the tournament by a certain Venus Williams.

#4 Serena Williams v Caroline Wozniacki, 2014 US Open Final

Wozniacki shares a laugh with Williams

A commanding 6-3, 6-3 win over her Danish friend, Caroline Wozniacki means that Serena had won the 2014 US open without dropping a set nor did she lose more than 3 games in a set. She dominated the whole match like she dominated in the whole tournament.

This was her 18th Grand Slam victory and she equalled Martina Navratilova's and Chris Evert's tally.

This was also her 6th US Open crown and the third straight at the Flushing Meadows. Later she paid tribute to the Championship, "It is a pleasure to win my first Grand Slam here and then this No. 18, so I’m really emotional. I couldn’t ask to do it at a better place."

#3 Serena Williams v Venus Williams, 2002 Wimbledon Final

Williams sisters after the 2002 Wimbledon final

Despite being an underdog in the Wimbledon final against her sister, Venus Williams, a two-time defending champion, Serena won the final comfortably with a 7-6(4), 6-3 scoreline. Serena looked sharper right from the start. Venus fought hard in the first set but wasn't able to dominate her younger sister. In the second set, a gritty Serena took control of the match and won it quite easily as Venus looked tired. The sisters didn't display their best form at the same time, but sometimes the tennis was breath-taking.

After this victory, Serena moved to the top of the rankings for the first time in her career. A position, which she has held for 319 weeks.

This was her first Wimbledon title and 3rd Grand Slam. This was also the first tournament which she had won without losing a set.

#2 Serena Williams v Venus Williams, 2003 Australian Open Final

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The Williams sister met in a final yet again. The younger Williams went on to win the final 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4. The match went on for 2 hours and 23 minutes.

Not since 99 had a match between these two went on till the third set. Serving from Venus was simply stunning in the second set. As the game progressed, it wore off and Serena capitalized. It was a yet another victory for Serena against her elder sister. Later Serena admitted that if the service from Venus was as good as it was in second set, she wouldn't have had the chance to win the match.

Victory in the 2003 Australian Open Final also meant that Serena held all four major titles. She was the fifth woman to achieve this incredible feat.

To prove everyone that it wasn't mere luck, she repeated the feat again in 2014-15. This feat is also dubbed as the "Serena Slam" by the press.

#1 Serena Williams v Martina Hingis, 1999 US open Final

1999 Us Open Finals

This was the beginning of an illustrious career.

Serena Williams' first Grand Slam came at the age of 17 with a 6-3, 7-6(4) victory over Martina Hingis in her 17th Grand Slam appearance. She went on win 22 more Grand Slams till date.

Serena was leading the second set 5-3 with two match points in her hand and got carried away. She then went on lose 13 of the next 15 points handing Hingis a lifeline in the match. Serena then managed to pull things back and won the set in the tie-breaker.

This was a huge upset in the tournament because, Martina Hingis was the no.1 seeded and 5 time Grand Slam Champion. It was also a huge moment for Serena Williams as she won her maiden Grand Slam in front of her home crowd.

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Serena Williams v Victoria Azarenka, 2012 US Open Final

Williams was losing the third set 3-5 to Azarenka and was just 2 points away from losing the match. She then went on to win the next 4 games and won the US Open.