Serena Williams defeats Garbine Muguruza 6-4, 6-4 to claim her sixth Wimbledon title and complete her second "Serena Slam." (2:10) 
 
 LONDON -- Serena Williams let herself briefly bask in the joy of a sixth Wimbledon championship, 21st Grand Slam singles trophy overall and fourth consecutive major title Saturday, even balancing the winner's silver dish atop her head -- Look, Ma, no hands! -- as she sauntered off Centre Court. 
 
 "I was peaceful, feeling really good," Williams said. "Maybe a little after that, I started thinking about New York." 
 
 On to the next one. When the U.S. Open begins at Flushing Meadows in August, Williams will pursue pretty much the only accolade to elude her so far: a calendar-year Grand Slam, something no one has accomplished in tennis in more than a quarter-century. 
 
 She will arrive there having won her past 28 matches at major tournaments, the latest coming at the All England Club on Saturday, when the No. 1-seeded Williams put aside an early deficit and a late lull, closing out a 6-4, 6-4 victory over No. 20 Garbine Muguruza of Spain. 
 
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 It's Williams' second self-styled "Serena Slam" of four majors in a row; she also did it in 2002-03. 
 
 "I've been trying to win four in a row for 12 years, and it hasn't happened. I've had a couple injuries. You know, it's been an up-and-down process," Williams said. "I honestly can't say that last year or two years ago or even five years ago I would have thought that I would have won four in a row." 
 
 At 33, she is the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam tournament in the Open era of professional tennis, and it comes 16 years after her first, at the 1999 U.S. Open. 
 
 Only Maureen Connolly in 1953, Margaret Court in 1970, and Steffi Graf in 1988 have won all four majors in a single season. And only Court (24) and Graf (an Open-era record 22) own more Grand Slam singles titles than Williams. 
 
 Her collection includes a half-dozen trophies each from Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and Australian Open, and three from the French Open. 
 
 "I just never dreamt I would be out here still," Williams said, "let alone winning." 
 
 Hasn't come easily. Far from it. At the French Open, fighting an illness, she gutted out five three-setters on the way to the title last month. At Wimbledon, she was two points from defeat twice against Britain's Heather Watson in the third round, then eliminated a trio of women who are former No. 1s and own multiple major titles: her older sister Venus, Victoria Azarenka, and Maria Sharapova. 
 
 "She refuses defeat. She refuses to lose," said Williams' coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, who has helped her win eight of the past 13 Grand Slam tournaments. "When she feels the taste of losing, she finds so much strength, and then she can raise her level." 
 
 If Serena Williams wins the US Open, she will become the first person to win a calendar-year Grand Slam since Steffi Graf in 1988. Shaun Botterill/Getty Images 
 
 Maybe the most telling statistic about Williams' ability to turn it up a notch when the spotlight is brightest is this: Her record in major semifinals and finals is 47-7. 
 
 Saturday's victory made her 21-4 in Slam title matches; it was the 21-year-old Muguruza's first major final. 
 
 But Muguruza's 6-2, 6-2 win against Williams at the 2014 French Open is the American's most lopsided loss at a major. 
 
 In the first game Saturday, Williams contributed three double-faults -- she wound up with eight -- and missed a forehand long, then a backhand long, to get broken. Less than a half-hour in, Muguruza led 4-2, thanks in part to her big, flat groundstrokes that pushed Williams around. 
 
 Williams was not going to go gently, of course, and she produced a 20-minute burst of brilliance, grabbing five straight games and nine of 10. 
 
 "I was like, `What can I do?" Muguruza said. 
 
 Suddenly, Williams was up a set and 5-1 in the second. 
 
 And suddenly, she began to come undone. 
 
 "All the people are nervous, even Serena, in a final," Muguruza said. "Because I saw it." 
 
 Up in the stands, Mouratoglou saw it, too, noticing that Williams' ball tosses on serves were too low, a sign of being tight. 
 
 She got broken at love to make it 5-2. After Muguruza held, Williams served for it again, and was broken again, wasting a match point in the process. Now it was 5-4, and the crowd was roaring after each point -- even during some. 
 
 "Definitely a little pressure," Williams acknowledged, "toward the end." 
 
 Ah, but no one is better with so much at stake. The finish was anticlimactic, with Muguruza missing a forehand to get broken at love. Both women stood still, neither realizing it was over. Soon enough, though, Williams was telling a teary-eyed Muguruza: "Don't be sad, you'll be holding this trophy very, very soon, believe me." 
 
 For now, Williams is keeping all the hardware to herself. ||||| We have the dream matchup in the men's Wimbledon final: No. 1 vs. No. 2; Novak Djokovic vs. Roger Federer. Djokovic and Federer will face each other Sunday, with the match starting at 9 a.m. ET on ESPN. 
 
 These two met last year at the same time in the same place, with Djokovic surviving five tight sets to win his second Wimbledon title, his seventh Grand Slam overall. 
 
 A year later he's added an eighth to his collection, while Federer is still sitting pretty with 17 major titles to his name. 
 
 Both men looked phenomenal in their semifinal matches and have been in form all year long. So who has the edge in the final on Sunday? Keep reading to find out. ||||| She faced a feisty rival but after a shaky start, top seed Serena Williams of the United States recovered to win her sixth Wimbledon championship and 21st career Grand Slam with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over 20th seed Garbine Muguruza of Spain. 
 
 In front of the usual star-studded crowd at Wimbledon's Centre Court, Williams overcame early serving difficulties that put her down a break to get the upper hand on 21-year-old Muguruza, playing in her first Grand Slam championship. 
 
 When Serena struggled, Muguruza showed plenty of determination with her aggressive playing style, a departure from what we've seen in the past from Spain's top female players. But Williams regained her composure in the late stages of the first set and jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the second set, then suffered a lapse before securing the win. 
 
 Looking down and out, Muguruza broke Williams twice and fought off a championship point before finally falling to the player that some are now calling the best ever in women's tennis. 
 
 The win means that Williams currently hold all four women's Grand Slam titles—her first "Serena Slam" since 2002-03. With wins in the first three Grand Slam events of 2015, a victory in September at this year's U.S. Open would make her the first woman to earn a Calendar Slam since Steffi Graf in 1988. One more Grand Slam win for Williams will also tie Graf's Open Era record of 22 victories.
– Serena Williams today did what she usually does when she makes it to a Grand Slam final—win. She beat 20th seed Garbine Muguruza of Spain at Wimbledon in straight sets, 6-4 and 6-4, reports ESPN. The victory sets up an interesting scenario, notes Bleacher Report. If Williams wins at the US Open in September, that will give her all four Grand Slams this year—the first "Calendar Slam" since Steffi Graf managed the feat in 1988. On the men's side, Roger Federer plays Novak Djokovic tomorrow. Here's a preview.