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LONDON — Serena Williams letherself briefly bask in the joy of asixth Wimbledon championship,21st Grand Slam singles trophyoverall and fourth consecutivemajor title Saturday, even balanc-ing the winner’s silver dish atopher head – Look, Ma, no hands! – asshe sauntered off Centre Court.

“I was peaceful, feeling reallygood,” Williams said. “Maybe alittle after that, I started thinkingabout New York.”

On to the next one. When theU.S. Open begins at FlushingMeadows in August, Williams willpursue pretty much the only acco-lade to elude her so far: a calendar-year Grand Slam, something noone has accomplished in tennis inmore than a quarter-century.

She will arrive there havingwon her past 28 matches at majortournaments, the latest coming atthe All England Club on Saturday,when the No. 1-seeded Williams putaside an early deficit and a latelull, closing out a 6-4, 6-4 victoryover No. 20 Garbine Muguruza ofSpain.

It’s Williams’ second self-styled“Serena Slam” of four majors in arow; she also did it in 2002-03.

“I’ve been trying to win four ina row for 12 years, and it hasn’thappened. I’ve had a couple in-juries. You know, it’s been an up-and-down process,” Williams said.“I honestly can’t say that last yearor two years ago or even five yearsago I would have thought that Iwould have won four in a row.”

At 33, she is the oldest woman towin a Grand Slam tournament inthe Open era of professional ten-nis, and it comes 16 years after herfirst, at the 1999 U.S. Open.

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