Serena Williams claims fifth Wimbledon crown

Williams claimed her 14th Grand Slam singles title, her fifth at the All England Club, matching sister Venus total.With the victory, Williams becomes the first woman past her 30th birthday to win a major in 22 years. Martina Navratilova was the last to do so, capturing a ninth Wimbledon crown in 1990 at age 33.Into the final, she was converting 92% of the time when she got her first serve in. And she set and broke records for aces, smacking 23 againstZheng Jie and upping that record with 24 against Victoria Azarenka in the semifinals.The numbers dipped in the final — she won only 82% of her first-serve points, despite 17 aces. Near the end of the second set, Williams wobbled. Radwanksa finally broke through in the eighth game of the second set to get back on serve at 4-4. She broke again when Williams was serving to stay in the second set.Williams took control of the third set with a break in the fifth game, held to 4-2 and then broke again to take a 5-2 lead. Then she held her serve, and her nerves, to close it out.Radwanksa, a deft counterpuncher who plays great defense and chases down ball after ball, had dropped only one set on her way to the final, struggled to stay with Williams in the opening set.A brief burst of rain caused a delay after the first set, but they waited it out — about 20 minutes — and the roof remained open.Radwanksa, who had been battling a respiratory illness, found her game midway through the second set, after getting broken early.Williams was a little shaky early in the tournament and was forced to tough out close three-set contests against Zheng in the third round and Shvedova in the fourth round before taking down 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the quarterfinals. Next came a tense semifinal victory against No. 2 Azarenka.It has been a long road back since Williams last major crown.A few days after winning the 2010 Wimbledon title, Williams cut her foot on glass at a Munich restaurant. The foot required two surgeries in the fall, one to repair a severed tendon.Six months later, she suffered a pulmonary embolism, or blood clot, that traveled from her leg to her lungs. She then was hospitalized to remove a hematoma from her stomach that grew to the size of a grapefruit.And just last month, she lost in the first round at the French Open, her first career loss in the opening round of a major.