Serena Williams wins record-tying 22nd grand slam at Wimbledon

Serena Williams wins at Wimbledon — (Image credit: Justin Tallis/Getty Images)

Tennis champion Serena Williams won her 22nd grand slam at Wimbledon on Saturday, triumphing over Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3. The victory ties Williams, 34, with Steffi Graf's Open-era record of major titles, an achievement Williams has claimed after falling short at the Australian Open and French Open finals earlier this year.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.