Serena Williams Faces Tough Wimbledon Draw
Published on June 29 2015 6:34 am
Last Updated on July 2 2015 6:23 am
To get her fourth straight major title, Serena Williams will have to navigate a loaded top half of the Wimbledon draw featuring seven Slam winners. Her buddy Caroline Wozniacki, though, might have a path to a long-awaited breakthrough.
Nobody did Serena Williams any favors. The Wimbledon draw, announced on Friday, is complicated at best for the history-seeking five-time champion.
Williams, who is going for her fourth straight major and trying to keep alive her hopes of winning the first calendar-year Grand Slam since 1988, could get fellow five-time champion (not to mention sister) Venus Williams in the fourth round. It's the earliest the No. 1 seed and the No. 16 seed could meet.
Waiting in the quarterfinals could be either Victoria Azarenka or Ana Ivanovic, both former No. 1s and major champions. In the semis could be 2004 champion Maria Sharapova.
To recap, Serena might have to make it past three former No. 1 players, including two former Wimbledon champions, just to make it to the final.
The one bright spot? The past two women to beat Williams at Wimbledon and the only woman to beat her this year -- Alize Cornet, Sabine Lisicki and Petra Kvitova -- all landed in the bottom half.
