'Serena must be prepared to live with it and say goodbye even in the face of defeat'
'I think when I first started, you could win a lot of easy matches, then you're in the quarter-finals, that's when it starts to get a little more tough. Now, like, there's no easy match. Everyone's playing great. Everyone's just doing a lot better'
Following is a list of American Serena Williams' 22 grand slam singles titles as she equalled Steffi Graf's professional era record with victory at Wimbledon on Saturday
Williams posted pictures on her Instagram page and wrote: Caption this (MUST SWIPE RIGHT).
Serena Williams credited Tiger Woods on Wednesday as one of the main reasons she was still playing tennis.
Coco Gauff ended local heroine Lois Boisson's dream run at the French Open with a ruthless 6-1, 6-2 victory on Thursday to set up a final clash with top seed Aryna Sabalenka.
Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka's name appeared on the singles entry list for Wimbledon released by the organisers on Friday but veterans Roger Federer and the Williams sisters were not included.
Serena Williams needs to be creative and add variety to her game if the 39-year-old American wants to tame the current power-hitters on clay, seven-time Grand Slam singles winner Mats Wilander said ahead of this week's French Open.
While her career has featured a number of highs -- she has won two doubles Grand Slam titles and 11 WTA titles, including the Cincinnati Masters -- Garcia said she has become fixated on what she sees as her failures.
The first stop on Serena Williams' farewell tour came to a quick end as she fell to Belinda Bencic in second-round action at the Canadian Open on Wednesday a day after announcing her forthcoming retirement from tennis.
Australian Open set a Grand Slam attendance record with more than 900,000 spectators visiting over three weeks
Serena Williams has defeated her compatriot in four straight matches since a defeat in the quarter-finals of the 2013 Australian Open.
Madison Keys, 29, is the fourth-oldest first-time Grand Slam champion in the professional era.
The defeat ended Williams's bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title.
World number one Serena Williams shows no sign of slowing down with age and should win more than 20 Grand Slam singles titles, former great Martina Navratilova has said.
Williams has just one professional tournament remaining before she drops the curtain on her historic career
Aryna Sabalenka is the red-hot favourite at Melbourne Park, where another victory would give her a fourth major title and widen the gap in the rankings to Poland's Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff of the United States.
'I'm terrible at goodbyes, the world's worst'
Sania Mirza in her tribute to Serena wrote how the all-time great women's singles tennis player inspired her.
Serena Williams signalled she is not quite ready for retirement advancing to the second round of the US Open on Monday with a scrappy 6-3, 6-3 win over Danka Kovinic.
Serena Williams was once again on the stage but this time it was her own fashion show during New York Fashion Week.
Serena has slid down to 1,204 in the rankings and needed a wildcard from Wimbledon organisers
Serena return had been eagerly anticipated but 115th-ranked Tan ripped up the script with a nerve-shredding win.
Venus Williams will miss the upcoming US Open due to an injury, becoming the third U.S. female after her sister Serena and Sofia Kenin to announce on Wednesday they would not take part in the final Grand Slam tournament of the year.
Serena Williams said she would have faced far harsher punishment had she engaged in similar behavior to Zverev
Tennis great Serena Williams limped out of Wimbledon in tears on Tuesday after her latest bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles crown ended in injury.
Michelle Obama and tennis great Billie Jean King led the tributes to Serena Williams
The American great came into what is expected to be her final tournament as a 50-1 long-shot to win the title but after upsetting world number two Anett Kontaveit on Wednesday she is now 14-1
Aryna Sabalenka will battle American 19th seed Madison Keys in the final on Saturday looking to become the first woman since Martina Hingis from 1997-99 to win the Australian Open title three times in a row.
World No 1 Williams, 33, could not practise on Friday, still suffering from an illness that left her coughing and spluttering during her three-set semi-final win over Swiss Timea Bacsinszky.
Tennis star Serena Williams on Wednesday dropped a big hint that she could be pregnant with her first baby as she posted a picture of Snapchat with the caption "20 weeks".
In the clash of legends, Roger Federer got the better of Serena Williams in their historic clash in the mixed doubles at the Hopman Cup in Perth on Tuesday.
Osaka will play Jennifer Brady for the title.
Defeat for Williams was a major blow to her preparations for the French Open
There is no secret to beating Serena Williams, says her US Open semi-final opponent Victoria Azarenka, the only chance to win is to fight hard, execute well and remember the 23-times Grand Slam champion is never out of it, no matter the score.
Federer, who looked dapper and a sure shot contender to play the next James Bond, caught up with fellow tennis legend, Williams -- in all her pregnant glory!
Serena Williams recently faced a social media criticism after she posted a photoshopped picture of herself.
American Serena Williams dropped a large hint that she could soon be back on court competing when she posted an Instagram photo of a pair of dazzling gold and white tennis shoes.
She remained philosophical in defeat, however, saying that her expectations coming into the tournament had not been high.
