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Serena Williams Approaching 300 Weeks at No. 1
Serena Williams
will become just the third woman in history to lock down 300 weeks at No. 1 when the second week of the Wimbledon fortnight begins. But the 34-year-old will have to do a modicum of work to ensure that she remains No.1 on the Monday after the Championships.
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Federer, Djokovic Ready to Roll on Day 1
Four players have a chance to overcome the American and claim the top spot.
GarbiƱe Muguruza
,
Agnieszka Radwanska
and
Angelique Kerber
will need to reach at least the final to overtake Williams, while
Simona Halep
will have to win the tournament with Williams getting knocked out in the first round.
Long shots they are, all of them.
Muguruza, currently 1618 points behind Williams, is the closest, but she’s also defending Wimbledon runner-up points. Radwanska is 2455 points behind but the Pole is defending semifinal points at Wimbledon; Kerber is 3000 points back and defending third-round points at the Championships.
Halep is 3958 points behind Williams. The Romanian fell in the first round at Wimbledon last year.
Williams will spend her 176th and 177th consecutive weeks at No.1 at Wimbledon. It’s the second-longest streak in WTA history, after Steffi Graf’s record of 186 weeks at the top.
This is Williams’ sixth stint at World No. 1.
The WTA’s all-time leader in weeks at No. 1 is
Steffi Graf
, who logged 377 weeks at the top.
Martina Navratilova
spent 332 weeks as No.1.
Williams will begin her bid for a seventh Wimbledon title at Wimbledon. Only Graf (7), and Navratilova (9), have won Wimbledon more.
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