Serena Williams wants to match Steffi Graf in New York. – SIPANY / SIPA

JL with AFP

After Melbourne in January, Paris and London in June in July, Serena Williams wants to rock New York and the US Open starting on Monday to get a little more in tennis history féminin.A New York, She is at her place. Serena, the addicted to fashion and shopping, love the electric atmosphere of the “Big Apple,” Williams, the queen of women’s tennis, made the law at Flushing Meadows since 2012 without interruption.

“When I was a child, the US Open was really the tournament I dreamed of winning,” she recalled this week. But the 2015 edition of the appointment in New York is not a Grand Slam like the others: if successful, it will be only the fourth player in history to win all four majors in the same year , the first since the German Steffi Graf in 1988.

But this perspective does not seem to make him lose sleep. Neither the possibility to match the number of Grand Slam titles with Graf 22nd coronation. “As much as I dreamed of winning the US Open, the Grand Slam success so I can not say that I have not dreamed but that is not the same (…) There is always a Another record to beat, “she remarked.

Because his last loss at Flushing Meadows was in the final of the 2011 edition because it conceded just two defeats in 2015, because it earns even matches without playing particularly well, Williams, 33, is the favorite. The opposition seems unable to stop it, prey to a complex Williams in the image of Maria Sharapova who withdrew Sunday and then too fickle as the World No.2 Petra Kvitova or Simona Halep.