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"With a reduction in glut, a little less butt and a smidgen more guts, Serena Williams would easily be as big as Michael Jackson, dwarf Tiger Woods and take a run at Rosa Parks." Yep, that's a real thing written by someone 

The Serena Slam is one of the most amazing feats in sports, but some people are boring and like to pretend winning all four grand slam titles in a calendar year is any more impressive than winning them all in a row.

Garbiñe Muguruza should have the mien of a condemned prisoner – albeit one about to collect a minimum £940,000 – yet she manages to sound as if she were preparing for a picnic on Wimbledon Common instead of being delivered up to Serena Williams 

The Serena Slam is one of the most amazing feats in sports, but some people are boring and like to pretend winning all four grand slam titles in a calendar year is any more impressive than winning them all in a row.

1999: Serena Williams, 17, celebrates her win over Martina Hingis of Switzerland in the women's final of the U.S. Open at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York on Sept. 11. Williams defeated Hingis to win her first U.S. Open title.