Serena Williams: Grass court season history, record & past results
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Serena Williams – one of the greatest tennis players and athletes of all time – is set to make her comeback during the 2026 grass court season.
The 44-year-old recently announced that she will be returning to the WTA Tour at the HSBC Championships after accepting a wild card into the women’s doubles.
We breakdown Williams’ history on grass courts and look back at some of her past results and successes.
Serena Williams’s best grass court results
Williams is a seven-time Wimbledon singles champion, a six times women’s doubles title winner and has also won the mixed doubles title once.
Her seven singles titles at Wimbledon is the second most in the Open Era after Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova with nine.
She also won the Olympic gold medals in singles and doubles at London 2012 – becoming only the third player to win both events at one Games after her sister Venus (2000) and Helen Willis (1924).
Here is a rundown of all of Williams’ singles titles on grass:
- 2002 Wimbledon – bt. Venus Williams (USA) 7-6(4), 6-3
- 2003 Wimbledon – bt. Venus Williams (USA) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
- 2009 Wimbledon – bt. Venus Williams (USA) 7-6(3), 6-2
- 2010 Wimbledon – bt, Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2
- 2012 Wimbledon – bt. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 6-1, 5-7, 6-2
- 2012 Olympics – bt. Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1
- 2015 Wimbledon – bt. Gabrine Muguruza (ESP) 6-4, 6-4
- 2016 Wimbledon – bt. Angelique Kerber (GER) 7-5, 6-3
Williams won the women’s doubles title at Wimbledon in 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2016, all with Venus. She won the singles and doubles titles in the same year on four separate occasions.
Her first Wimbledon title came in the 1998 mixed doubles with Max Miryni. Williams also played in the mixed doubles with British star Andy Murray in 2019.
Check out the history of Grand Slam title winners
What is Serena Williams’s biggest grass court win?
Williams has had many historic victories on grass, including two wins over the world No.1 at the time.
In 2002, she famously defeated her sister and five-time Wimbledon singles champion Venus in the final of The Championships 7-6(4), 6-3.
Her other victory over a world No.1 on grass came in the semi-finals of the 2012 London Olympic Games, where she knocked out Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 6-2.
Williams went on to win the Olympic gold medal that year. She lost the fewest games in history en route to winning the gold – losing just 17 games in six rounds.
What grass court tournaments is Serena Williams competing in this year?
Williams is currently set to play the following grass court tournaments in 2026:
- HSBC Championships (8-14 June)
What is Serena Williams’s grass court record?
During her career, Williams played 123 singles matches on grass, and won 107, giving her an 87% win-rate on the surface.
Grass is the surface she has the best record on, with the 23-time Grand Slam champion winning 83.9% on hard courts (540/644) and 79.2% on clay (179/226).
What is Serena Williams’s recent results?
This will be Williams’ first professional tennis tournament in almost four years, after her third round exit at the US Open in 2022.
Her last WTA title came at the Auckland Open in 2020, where she beat Jessica Pegula in the final.
Williams has won a combined 39 singles and doubles Grand Slam titles during her career.
Her 23 singles titles is the most won by a women’s player in the Open Era and second most of all-time.
Here’s a breakdown of her singles Grand Slam titles:
- Australian Open – Seven (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017)
- Roland Garros – Three (2002, 2013, 2015)
- Wimbledon – Seven (2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016)
- US Open – Six (1999, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Williams won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 1999 US Open.
She defeated Martina Hingis of Switzerland 6-3, 7-6(4) in the final.
Williams has won a combined 14 titles at Wimbledon:
- Seven singles – 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2016
- Six women’s doubles – 2000, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2016
- One mixed doubles – 1998
Williams reached world No.1 at the age of 20 in 2002 after winning the Wimbledon title.
The American star overtook sister Venus at the top of the world rankings. That year, they became the first sisters to hold the No.1 and No.2 spots in the WTA rankings.
She also holds the record for the oldest player to reach the world No.1 ranking at the age of 35 in 2017.
Williams held the world No.1 spot for 319 weeks – the third most of all-time.
No, Williams has never played a tour match at The Queen’s Club.
WTA tennis returned to the historic London venue in 2025 for the first time in 52 years. This year will be her first appearance at Queen’s.
Williams is the only player to have completed the ‘Career Golden Slam’ in both singles and doubles.
This is when a player wins all four Grand Slam titles as well as the Olympic gold medal.
She achieved this in singles after the London 2012 Olympic Games and in doubles at the 2001 Australian Open.
She is the most recent women to have held all four Grand Slam singles titles at the same time, which she achieved twice between 2002-2003 and 2014-2015, and did so in doubles from 2009-2010.
