• ‘I worked really, really hard. It’s been a long, arduous road’
If anyone doubted Serena Williams was worth consideration as a winner of this tournament for an eighth time – let alone the 25th seeding that has caused a minor stir in the locker room – she provided the most emphatic statement of intent with her third straight-sets win of the week to reach the fourth round on a wave of growing self-belief.
“It’s going pretty well,” she said courtside with staggering understatement after beating the accomplished French player Kristina Mladenovic 7-5, 7-6 (2) in front of a Centre Court audience who had come to soak up the sun and the American’s glowing brilliance on Friday afternoon.
Written by Kevin Mitchell at Wimbledon
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/06/serena-williams-notice-comeback-title-wimbledon under the title “Serena Williams beats Mladenovic to give notice that comeback title is on”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
