WIMBLEDON, England — After struggling with the burden of winning her first Grand Slam singles title, Garbiñe Muguruza now must cope with the reality of winning a second.
She triumphed at Wimbledon on Saturday by defeating the five-time champion Venus Williams, 7-5, 6-0.
At 23, Muguruza is 14 years younger than Williams, the American star who was playing in her first Wimbledon singles final since 2009.
But Muguruza is Williams’s stylistic acolyte: a big-serving, flat-hitting power player who is happiest on a tennis court when she is most aggressive.
Now, she is the first Spanish woman to win the Wimbledon singles title since Conchita Martínez in 1994.