Serena mulls extra occasions to assist win 24th main
LONDON — Serena Williams will search to play extra tournaments exterior of Grand Slams to bolster her bid for main title No. 24 after dropping the Wimbledon girls’s ultimate to Simona Halep on Saturday.
Williams is one Grand Slam off equaling Margaret Courtroom’s document of 24, however her newest bid at Wimbledon was ended by Halep, who received 6-2, 6-2.
After the match, Williams praised Halep and didn’t make excuses for the excellent defeat. With the 24th title nonetheless proving elusive, Williams was requested what it should take for her to recover from the road, having misplaced her previous three Grand Slam finals (Wimbledon 2018, 2019 and US Open 2018).
“I simply have to determine a solution to win a ultimate,” Williams mentioned. “Perhaps it’s taking part in different finals exterior of Grand Slams could be actually useful simply to sort of get within the groove, so by the point I get to a Grand Slam ultimate I am sort of used to what to do and methods to play.”
Williams added: “I simply suppose that I simply have to simply hold going, you realize, hold attempting, hold working, perhaps have the ability to play some tournaments unhurt, like I did with this one. Simply hold shifting ahead.”
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She can also be attempting to park ideas of Courtroom’s document and is as an alternative taking tournaments in isolation.
“Somebody advised me I should not have a look at the information anymore,” Williams mentioned. “I ought to simply deal with my recreation. That is sort of what I have been doing since I received to 18. Within the meantime, I received pregnant, had a child, so … that positively performs a bit of bit into it. I do not know. I really feel like I am simply actually on this journey of simply doing the perfect that I can, taking part in the perfect that I can once I can.”
The Centre Courtroom crowd was usually vocal in its assist for Williams, 37, and he or she acknowledges the possibilities to see the likes of her and different tennis greats like Roger Federer are lowering as they become old.
“I positively felt the assist and the love,” Williams mentioned. “I appreciated it. I needed to do higher. I do not suppose my opponent needed me to do higher immediately. … However it’s cool. Yeah, regardless of which manner you have a look at it, [Federer and I are] not going to be out right here within the subsequent three, 4, 5 years. The time is now to get on the market and to look at us play, I assume.”
Williams got here into Wimbledon having missed a part of the yr with a knee damage, however she mentioned it feels “completely nice.” Her consideration now turns to the hard-court season and that 24th title on the US Open. She is going to play in Toronto and Cincinnati earlier than this yr’s US Open in August.
“I believe there is a restrict,” Williams mentioned of including to her schedule. “I believe if I overdo it, then that is also an issue, as nicely. Particularly on the exhausting courts. I have been on the softer surfaces, so to say. It could be attention-grabbing to see how my knee is on the exhausting court docket. I positively do not wish to do three tournaments earlier than a Grand Slam. I believe it is going to be superb.”