Serena aims for calendar-year Grand Slam

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Serena Williams, who has won the last two majors, says she is aiming to win the calendar-year Grand Slam in 2013. If Williams manages to do so, she will be the first player to accomplish the feat since Steffi Graf in 1988. Williams did won four straight majors in 2002-2003, which was termed the “Serena Slam.”

“I think whoever wins the Australian Open will have that same thought,” Williams told reporters in Brisbane. “I think there is no way that Victoria [Azarenka] or Maria [Sharapova] or maybe some other players don’t have that same thought. I think I definitely feel that way.”

Afterward, Sharapova told the Courier-Mail that she believes Serena could achieve the feat.
 
“Well, she has the last two,” Sharapova said of Serena. “Anything is possible but that’s certainly tough. How tough? Well, I’ve never done it so I can’t tell you.”

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