Serena Williams Set to Make History With U.S. Open Win

Serena Williams just won her third grand slam of the 2015 tennis season on Friday, when she won this year’s Wimbledon title. The win gave her 21 singles titles for her career and with the U.S. Open appraching, she could have history in her sights.

Two huge milestones could be approached by Williams come the 2015 U.S. Open, as a win there would give her a win at all four grand slam events for the year, which would give her the first clean Grand Slam sweep since Steffi Graf made it happen back in 1988. In fact, by doing so, she’d be just the sixth tennis player in history to accomplish the feat.

On top of the Grand Slam sweep (which is sweet enough by itself), Williams could vault herself to all-time greatest status by tying Graff with 22 singles titles in a career. While Williams is likely at her peak (or in a mild decline), she’s still playing terrific tennis when compared to her competition and could shatter that record come 2016.

The big question, of course, is who can stop her? Tennis fans probably would prefer to see greatness, and it shouldn’t shock anyone that Williams has pretty stout odds to win the 2015 U.S. Open (5/4). The reality is that Williams is probably on a collision course with greatness, rather than some random competitor that will rise up and stop her from declaring herself the best women’s tennis player ever.

Of course, there are some worthy choices, as Victoria Azarenka (5/1 odds), Maria Sharapova (7/1) and Simona Halep (8/1) all have decent odds in their bid to take down Williams at the U.S. Open. Petra Kvitova (11/1 odds) has found some minimal success against Williams in the past, while sister Venus Williams (33/1) could always be a threat if the two faced off at some point in the tourney.

You can search high and low through the 2015 U.S. Open odds, though, and you probably won’t find the right player to take down Williams. She’s dead set on sweeping the Grand Slam for 2015 and it doesn’t appear anyone will stop her. Naturally, that makes her the odds on favorite as we’ve seen and a pretty nice (and safe) bet going into the final grand slam event of the 2015 tennis season.