World number one Serena Williams posted her 70th match win of the 2013 season on Thursday after she eliminated Maria Kirilenko of Russia at the China Open 2013 tournament. This is the first for the American’s glamorous tennis career that she’d these much matches in a single season. She became the fifth female tennis player to have achieved this feat.
Here are the other four great tennis players who have exceeded 70 match wins in a single season:
[1] Martina Hingis: 1997 (71 wins); 1999 (71 wins) and 2000 (77 wins)
[2] Kim Clijsters: 2003 (90 wins)
[3] Justine Henin: 2003 (75 wins)
[4] Jelena Jankovic: 2007 (72 wins)
[5] Serena Williams: 2013 (70 wins and counting)
