how many wimbledons has serena williams won?

Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court (24). The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) ranked her singles world No. 1 on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017.

On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf. In total, she has been WTA No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third since WTA Rankings began behind Graf and Martina Navratilova. She is the only American player, male or female, to win more than 20 majors.

Williams is widely regarded to be one of the greatest women tennis players of all time. She holds the most major titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles combined among active players, with 39: 23 in singles, 14 in women’s doubles, and two in mixed doubles. She is joint-third on the all-time list and second in the Open Era for total major titles accumulated.

2009-2010

She is the most recent woman to have held all four major singles titles simultaneously (2002–03 and 2014–15) and the third player to achieve this twice, after Rod Laver and Graf. Williams has is also the most recent women player to have won the Surface Slam (major titles on hard, clay and grass in the same calendar year), doing so in 2015. She is also, together with her older sister Venus, the most recent player to have held all four Grand Slam women’s doubles titles simultaneously (2009–10).

Williams has won a record 13 Grand Slam singles titles on hard court. Williams holds the Open Era record for most women’s singles titles at the Australian Open (7) and shares the Open Era record for most titles won at the US Open with Chris Evert (6).

She also holds the records for the most women’s singles matches won at majors with 365 matches and most singles majors won since turning 30 years old (10). She is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won three of the four Grand Slams at least 6 times. Williams is also a five-time winner of the WTA Tour Championships in the singles division.

The third women’s doubles Grand Slam title

Williams has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, all with her sister Venus, and the pair are unbeaten in Grand Slam doubles finals. As a team, she and Venus have the third most women’s doubles Grand Slam titles, behind the 18 titles of Natasha Zvereva (14 with Gigi Fernández) and the record 20 titles won by Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver.

She and Venus are the only tennis players in history with four Olympic gold medals, as well as the only ones to win Olympic gold in the same event on three occasions. She and Venus are the only Open Era women tennis players to win Olympic Gold in both the singles and doubles categories.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Williams became only the third player to win Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles at one Olympic Games, after Helen Wills Moody at the 1924 Summer Olympics and Venus at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Williams is the only player, male or female, to accomplish a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles. The arrival of the Williams sisters has been credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women’s professional tennis tour.

2015

Earning almost $29 million in prize money and endorsements, Williams was the world’s highest-paid woman athlete in 2016. She repeated this feat in 2017 when she was the only woman on Forbes‘ list of the 100 highest-paid athletes with $27 million in prize money and endorsements.

She has won the ‘Laureus Sportswoman of the Year’ award four times (2003, 2010, 2016, 2018), and in December 2015, she was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine. In 2021, she was ranked 28th on Forbes‘ World’s Highest-Paid Athletes list. In terms of career prize money, she stands as the highest-earning woman athlete of all time.

Serena Williams’ quest for a 24th Grand Slam title has reached the finals at the 2019 Wimbledon championships. Williams learned tennis from her father on the public courts in Los Angeles and turned professional in 1995, one year after her sister Venus. Possessing powerful serves and ground strokes and superb athleticism, the sisters soon attracted much attention.

1999

Many predicted Venus would be the first Williams sister to win a Grand Slam singles title, but it was Serena who accomplished the feat, winning the 1999 U.S. Open. At that tournament the sisters won the doubles event, and, over the course of their careers, the two teamed up for 14 Grand Slam doubles titles.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, Serena and Venus won gold medals in the doubles event. After several years of inconsistent play, Serena asserted herself in 2002 and won the French Open, the U.S. Open, and Wimbledon, defeating Venus in the finals of each tournament. Known for her fierce tenacity, Serena won the Australian Open in 2003 and thus completed a career Grand Slam by having won all four of the slam’s component tournaments.

Later that year she was also victorious at Wimbledon; both of her Grand Slam wins in 2003 came after she had bested her sister in the finals. In 2005 Serena won the Australian Open again. Beset by injury the following year, she rebounded in 2007 to win her third Australian Open. Serena and Venus won their second doubles tennis gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Later that year Serena won the U.S. Open for a third time. In 2009 she captured her 10th Grand Slam singles title by winning the Australian Open.

2010

Later that year she won her third Wimbledon singles title, once again defeating her sister. Serena defended her titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2010. She subsequently battled various health issues that kept her off the court for almost a year.

In 2012 she captured her fifth Wimbledon singles title. A month later at the London Olympic Games, Serena won a gold medal in the singles event, becoming the second woman (behind Steffi Graf) to win a career Golden Slam. She also teamed with Venus to win the doubles event. Later that year Serena claimed her 15th Grand Slam singles title with a victory at the U.S. Open.

In 2013 she won her second French Open singles championship and fifth U.S. Open singles title. Williams successfully defended her U.S. Open championship in 2014, which gave her 18 career Grand Slam titles, tying her with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova for the second highest women’s singles total of the open era. The following year she captured her sixth Australian Open. Williams then won the 2015 French Open—her 20th total Grand Slam singles championship.

2017

She continued her torrid streak at Wimbledon, winning a straight-set final to capture her sixth career Wimbledon singles title. Williams again won Wimbledon in 2016, giving her 22 career Grand Slam singles titles, which tied her with Graf for the most Slams in the open era for both women and men. Williams broke Graf’s record at the 2017 Australian Open, where she defeated her sister Venus in the final.

In April of that year, Williams announced that she was pregnant (she had gotten engaged to Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of the Web site Reddit, in December 2016) and would miss the remainder of the 2017 season. In September she gave birth to a daughter, and two months later she married Ohanian. Williams returned to tennis in March 2018. She failed to win a tournament that year, though she reached the finals at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

The latter loss proved controversial as Williams was penalized a game after arguing with the chair umpire over a code violation. In 2019 she was again defeated in the finals at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. At the 2020 ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, Williams won her first singles event in some three years.

2019

Williams’s autobiography, On the Line (written with Daniel Paisner), was published in 2009. Williams advanced to the championship round at the All England Club for an 11th time and will face first-time finalist Simona Halep for the major crown Saturday.

The seven-time Wimbledon champion remains one Grand Slam victory shy of Margaret Court’s singles record of 24 — a mark she hopes to equal in 2019. Williams’ last major victory came at the Australian Open in 2017, the longest drought of her career. Her most recent Wimbledon win came in 2016.

If Williams falls at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open in August will be her final chance of 2019 to match Court’s record. She went 0-2 in the finals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2018, has yet to win a tournament on the 2019 schedule, and this might be one of the last, best chances the all-time great has to make history.

How many times has Serena Williams won Wimbledon?

The All England Club has been Serena Williams’ most successful major venue. Her 11 Wimbledon finals appearances and seven wins are second all time in women’s singles, trailing only Martina Navratilova, who won nine of her 12 finals matches at tennis’ most prestigious major.

Williams also has won a whopping six Wimbledon women’s doubles titles with sister Venus.

A History of Serena Williams’ Seven Wimbledon Titles

With a 6-2, 6-4 win over Julia Goerges in the semifinals on Thursday, Serena Williams earned a place in the Wimbledon singles finals for the tenth time in her career. At the All England Club, she’s won seven singles titles and six doubles titles. With a win in Saturday’s final against Angelique Kerber, she’d claim her eighth Wimbledon title and tie Margaret Court’s record for Grand Slam singles titles at 18.

Much has changed since Serena claimed her first Wimbledon singles title 16 years ago, but one thing has remained the same—her dominance on the grass court. Let’s take a look back at all of her previous victories.

2002 — 7-6 (4), 6-3 over Venus Williams

Serena notched her first Wimbledon over her sister, whom she also played in that year’s Fench Open and U.S. Open. Serena would win all three meetings.

2003 — 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 over Venus Williams

After claiming her first “Serena Slam”—holding all four Grand Slam titles at the same time — with a win at the Australian Open, Serena claimed back-to-back Wimbledon titles in a rematch against her sister. The win was Serena’s fifth in six majors, all of which came over Venus.

2009 — 7-6, (3), 6-2 over Venus Williams

After losing to her sister in the finals the year before, Serena returned to reclaim the title in their third Wimbledon title matcup. But the story of the tournament came in the previous round, when Serena went head-to-head with Elena Dementieva for almost three hours in the semifinals. Serena emerged with a tight win (6-7, (4-7), 7-5, 8-6) over Dementieva in a now-classic battle between two Olympic gold medalists.

2010 — 6-4, 6-3 win over Vera Zvonareva

In one of her most dominant Wimbledon triumphs, Serena coasted to a win over Vera Zvonareva, who was making her first appearance in a Grand Slam final. The victory was Serena’s ninth major, moving her ahead of American great Billie Jean King in all-time Grand Slam titles.

2012 — 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 over Agnieszka Radwanska

Serena claimed her first Grand Slam Title in two years with this win, which culminated a years-long journey to recover from a series of ailments including a leg injury, a hemotoma and a pulmonary embolism that set back her ability to compete for most of 2010 and 2011. After dispatching her Polish challenger, she collapsed to the ground. And she overcome with emotion, in one of the most iconic scenes of her career.

2015 — 6-4, 6-4 over Garbine Muguruza

Fully recovered and back at her No. 1 ranking, Serena returned to claim the Wimbledon title with a win over her 21-year-old opponent. The victory marked the second “Serena Slam” of her career.

2016 — 7-5, 6-3 over Angelique Kerber

Serena claimed her sixth Wimbledon singles title two years ago, recovering from a shocking loss at the 2015 U.S. Open that ended her quest for the calendar Slam (she had won the first three majors of 2015). She took losses at the Australian and French Opens. But she returned to Wimbledon with a vengeance, solidly putting away Kerber, who had previously defeated her in the Australian Open final earlier that year. With her latest victory, Serena moved to tie Steffi Graf in second place for the open-era Grand Slam titles record with 22.