Serena Williams was the last player to defend a grand slam trophy in 2016 and since then no player has done it.
The last person to successfully defend a grand slam title was Serena Williams. It happened at Wimbledon in 2016, a tournament that the American has won many times. Since then we saw 23 grand slams held and no player was able to defend their title from the previous year. This year's US Open is set to follow that trend if Raducanu fails to do so.
It is the longest such sequence during the Open Era, with 12 games from 1980 to 1983 coming in second place. It serves as the ideal illustration of the present level of parity in the WTA game. One could argue that there are many great tennis players at the same time which is somewhat true but others could argue that there is no dominant talent in the game right now.
We've seen quite a few over the years but so far nobody was able to do it.
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