Serena Williams wins Wimbledon women's singles

Tennis player Serena Williams at the French Open in 2010. Williams won the women’s singles at Wimbledon July 7.
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The American tennis player Serena Williams has won her fifth title at Wimbledon in the women’s singles final, defeating the Polish player Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 5-7, 6-2.

This is Williams’ fourteenth Grand Slam title in her career, and a comeback after spending part of 2010 and 2011 out of action because of a leg injury and the pulmonary embolism that followed, according to a report from the BBC. “I can’t even describe it. I almost didn’t make it a few years ago,” Williams said according to the BBC, speaking after her win. “I was in hospital but now I’m here again and it was so worth it. I’m so happy.”

Williams also praised her opponent. “Aggie played so well and that’s why she’s had such a great career and she’s so young,” Williams said.

In tomorrow’s single final match, Britain’s Andy Murray will face off against Switzerland’s Roger Federer, in the first men’s singles finals for a British man in seventy four years. Going into the match, Murray has accepted that he is the underdog in the match. “I’m probably not expected to win the match, but it is one that, if I play well, I’m capable of winning,” Murray said in an interview with the BBC. “His [Fred Perry's] record here has been incredible, so the pressure will be less on me because of who he is.”

If Murray wins tomorrow, he will be the first British man since Perry to hoist the title of a Grand Slam. Perry won at Wimbledon in 1936. Murray adds that Federer is a strong player, and some have been writing him off early. “He’s lost some close matches in the Slams the last few years, but he had match points against Novak at the US Open in the last two years in a row,” Murray said. “I don’t think, if you look at the way he played today, you can’t say he’s past it or because he’s 30 he’s playing worse tennis. I just think the players around have got better.”