2019 Wimbledon Championship Women's Singles Final Serena Williams Vs Simona Halep Saturday July 13,2019

On Saturday July 13,2019 at Wimbledon, Serena Williams will play Simona Halep for the women’s title and compete in her third final with a chance to win a 24th Grand Slam singles championship, which would tie Margaret Court’s record

It has been two and a half years since Williams won No. 23, at the 2017 Australian Open

 At the time, she was pregnant with her daughter, Olympia Ohanian, and she did not play another tournament until March 2018

Serena Williams lost last year’s Wimbledon final to Germany's Angelique Kerber 6-3, 6-3, and last year’s United States Open final Japan's Naomi Osaka  6-2, 6-4

This year, Serena Williams, 37, has played a limited schedule because of a persistent knee injury, but has looked increasingly sharp through each round at Wimbledon.

Simona Halep, a 27-year-old Romanian seeded seventh at Wimbledon,won her first Grand slam title  at the French Open last year. She is playing her first Wimbledon final.

2018 French Open champion Simona Halep is bidding to become just the 10th active player to win multiple majors, joining Serena Williams (23), Venus Williams (seven), Maria Sharapova (five), Angelique Kerber (three), Victoria Azarenka, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Petra Kvitova, Garbine Muguruza and Naomi Osaka (two each).

Serena Williams, the No. 11 seed, is in her 11th Wimbledon singles final and seeking her eighth championship ,had won in 2002. 2003. 2009. 2010. 2012. 2015. 2016

Serena Williams has lost only once in her 10 matches against Halep, but it was a trouncing: 6-2, 6-0 in the round-robin stage of the 2014 year-end championships in Singapore.

Serena Williams avenged the loss in the final of that tournament, 6-3, 6-0, but says the memory of it remains fresh, and motivating.

Simona's Halep's Road to the final

Round 1: Halep beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4, 7-5
Round 2: Halep beat Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
Round 3: Halep beat Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 6-1
Round 4: Halep beat Cori Gauff 6-3, 6-3
Quarter-final: Halep beat Shuai Zhang 7-6(4), 6-1
Semi-final: Halep beat Elina Svitolina 6-1, 6-3

Serena Willams Road to the final

Round 1: Serena beat Giulia Gatto-Monticone 6-2, 7-5
Round 2: Serena beat Kaja Juvan 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
Round 3: Serena beat Julia Goerges 6-3, 6-4
Round 4: Serena beat Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2, 6-2
Quarter-final: Serena beat Alison Riske 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
Semi-final: Serena beat Barbora Strycova 6-1, 6-2

The past five Wimbledon women's finals were all straight sets wins

In 2014, Petra Kvitova beat Eugenie Bouchard 6-3 6-0

In 2015, Serena Williams beat Garbine Muguruza 6-4 6-4

In 2016, Serena beat Angelique Kerber 7-5 6-3

In 2017, Muguruza beat Venus Williams 7-5 6-0

In 2018, Kerber beat Serena 6-3 6-3.

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