PARIS — When someone has won as many significant matches and titles as Serena Williams — her Grand Slam trophy count now stands at 20 — it can be hard to decide how to sort them by degree of difficulty or order of importance.
"It's hard. I need to sit down and, like, rank them," Williams told a small group of reporters Saturday evening after becoming the third player in tennis history to get No. 20. "This is up there, because I was not at my best."
Hours earlier, she had beaten Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2 in a seesaw final for her third title at Roland Garros, despite dealing with an illness that Williams said made her consider pulling out of the tournament.