The 21st century
Spain · born Caracas, Venezuela, 1993 · right-handed · Wimbledon champion 2017
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Wimbledon singles title, 2017
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Wimbledon singles finals, 2015 and 2017
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Games in a row to end the 2017 final
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Set points saved against Venus Williams
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Her seeding at Wimbledon in 2017
Born in Caracas on 8 October 1993 to a Venezuelan mother and a Basque father, Muguruza moved to Spain at six and trained with her brothers at the Bruguera academy in Barcelona. She reached the Wimbledon final in 2015, beat Serena Williams for the French Open title in 2016 and won Wimbledon in 2017, and on 11 September 2017 she became world No. 1. She lost the 2020 Australian Open final to Sofia Kenin and in 2021 won the WTA Finals, beating Anett Kontaveit in the final. Her last match came in January 2023, and on 20 April 2024, aged 30, she announced her retirement. She has since served as an ambassador for Laureus Sport for Good.
| Wimbledon singles | Champion 2017; runner-up 2015. Third round 2021; second round 2013, 2016 and 2018; first round 2014, 2019 and 2022 |
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| Wimbledon finals | 2015: lost to Serena Williams 4-6, 4-6. 2017: beat Venus Williams 7-5, 6-0, saving two set points at 4-5 in the first set and winning the last nine games |
| Roads to the final | 2015: beat Angelique Kerber, Caroline Wozniacki, Timea Bacsinszky and Agnieszka Radwańska. 2017: beat Kerber in three sets, then Svetlana Kuznetsova and Magdaléna Rybáriková in straight sets |
| Other grass results | Birmingham doubles title 2015 with Carla Suárez Navarro; Birmingham singles semi-final 2017, lost to Ashleigh Barty |
| Records | The only player to have beaten both Williams sisters in major singles finals; the first Spanish woman to win Wimbledon since Conchita Martínez in 1994 |
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| 2017 | Women's singles | |
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| 2015 | Women's doubles | with Carla Suárez Navarro |
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"She will be holding this trophy very, very soon."
The person behind the player.
Barcelona, 1990s
Born in Caracas to a Venezuelan mother and a Basque father from Azkoitia, Muguruza moved to Spain at the age of six. She learned the game alongside her brothers at the Bruguera academy in Barcelona. She held Spanish and Venezuelan citizenship and played for Spain.
Source: WikipediaWimbledon 2015
After losing her first major final to Serena Williams 6-4, 6-4, Muguruza was in tears as Centre Court stood to applaud her with the runner-up plate. "I couldn't stop crying," she said. Williams told the crowd that Muguruza would be holding the trophy very, very soon. Her answer: "Hopefully I can do it. I was close."
Source: Gulf NewsWimbledon 2017
Conchita Martínez, Spain's Fed Cup and Davis Cup captain and the 1994 champion, was Muguruza's stand-in coach at Wimbledon. Martínez urged her to play each point on its own merits and not to dwell on the past or the future. Her verdict after the final: "She's very brave."
Source: Associated Press, via The Spokesman-ReviewWimbledon 2017 · Final
Her childhood role models were the Williams sisters. On match point Venus's shot was called in; Muguruza challenged, waited for the review, and only when it showed the ball out did she drop to her knees with her hands over her eyes. Later, seeing her name on the list of champions in the clubhouse, she said one word: "Finally!"
Source: Associated Press, via The Spokesman-ReviewTanzania, November 2019
At the end of the 2019 season she spent five days climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with a friend and a group of guides, reaching Uhuru Peak at 5,895 metres. "At some point, I was crying when my guide told me to not look down at the 300 m free fall," she wrote. Her summary: "We felt ALIVE!"
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