Serena Williams won her fourth Australian Open with an easy win in only 59 minutes.
She joined the double-digit club by winning her 10th grand slam event and played terrific tennis over the past two week tournament. Serena continued her streak of winning the Australian Open in odd-numbered years, after triumphs in 2003, 2005 and 2007. This year Serena beat Russia's Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-3. .
The win also returned Serena to the top of the ranking computer as the number one woman tennis player in the world. She is now the reigning U.S. Open and Australian Open ladies singles champion, placing her halfway to doing another 'Serena Slam' – holding all four major championships at the same time but not winning them over a calendar year. She has won 20 Grand Slam titles: ten in singles, eight in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. She also has won two Olympic gold medals in women's doubles. The next slam is the French Open, which she last won in 2002 by defeating her sister Venus.
It seems that the Williams sisters are back at the top. A Williams girl has won the last three slams, as Venus won at Wimbledon last summer. Serena and Venus also won the Australian Open doubles championship.
She is the most recent player, male or female, to have held all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously. Serena Williams has won more career prize money than any other woman, in any sport and has held the No. 1 ranking on three previous occasions.
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