Is Incredible Serena Williams at Her Peak with First Aussie-French Double?

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Published: June 6, 2015

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Just when we think we've seen it all from Serena Williams, the legend proves there are still some firsts left for her to strike off her list.

This fortnight at the French Open, despite battling the flu and a devastatingly difficult first-week schedule, Serena won her 20th Slam title by beating an impressively game Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-7, 6-2 in the final.

Afterward, she said on NBC that this was undoubtedly the "most dramatic" Slam win of her entire career, but she was still having a hard time stopping to enjoy it.

"I'm already thinking about Wimbledon," she said, still on court, just moments after holding the trophy and giving her victory speech to the crowd in French.



It makes sense that Wimbledon is already on her mind. After all, she has now won the last three major titles, and for the first time in her career, she has won the Australian Open and the French Open back-to-back.

That means she has a shot to win her first Calendar Slam, and in the process, she could potentially capture her Steffi Graf-tying 22nd major title at the U.S. Open.



It might sound absurd to be looking forward to September, to be counting Serena's future Slams before they hatch. But it's not, because it's possible that right now we are witnessing Serena play the best tennis of her entire career.

Yes, you read that right—at 33 years old, 17 years into her pro tennis career, 16 years after winning her first Grand Slam at the 1999 U.S. Open, 12 years after capturing the Career Grand Slam at the 2003 Australian Open, we might finally be seeing "Peak Serena."

When most people think of Serena at her best, they think back to 2002 and 2003, and rightly so. In 2002 she went 21-0 at the majors, winning the French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open in succession after skipping the Australian Open.

She won the Australian Open the following year, capturing what was calle...
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