Wimbledon 2015 Women's Final: Early Predictions for Serena Williams at US Open

Three down, one to go for Serena Williams.

The top-seeded American won her third Grand Slam title in as many tries in the 2015 calendar year, winning Saturday's Wimbledon women's final against 20th-seeded challenger Garbine Muguruza in a straight-set victory, 6-4, 6-4. In doing so, she took her fourth-straight major title and stayed alive for the 2015 Grand Slam sweep later this summer at the U.S. Open.

She will attempt to add to her incredible run of form in recent majors when she embarks upon Flushing Meadows, as Bleacher Report UK demonstrated:

The scoreboard doesn't really indicate it, but Williams was indeed given another serious test in her final outing of the fortnight at Wimbledon. She needed to convert on two break points in the opening set to avoid a tiebreak.

She surprisingly only tied Muguruza in aces throughout the first set, but she began to find her dominance from the service box beginning in the second set. Williams blasted ace after ace past her opponent, cruising to a 5-1 lead in the final set.

Muguruza didn't go away quietly, rebounding to rattle off three straight games and move within one break of regaining control of the set. But that only woke her opponent up, as Williams battened down the hatches by serving out the match and the championship. 

An insane advantage in the service box aided Williams' second-set prominence, as ESPN Stats & Info noted:

It's safe to say that few expected this run of form for Williams after the last time she fell in a Grand Slam match. That came well over a year ago, in the second round of the French Open—strangely enough to Muguruza.

But as she showed with her dispatching of that same opponent, Williams is much more consistent now than she was then. That didn't mean she wasn't going to celebrate Saturday, per CNN's Ravi Ubha:

"I honestly wouldn't have thought last year after winning the U.S. Open I would win the Serena Slam at all," Williams, emulating her feat of 2002-2003, told reporters. "It's super exciting."

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That quote from Williams—and her run over the last year—begs the immediate question. Will anyone be able to stop her some six or seven weeks from now, when the action begins at Flushing Meadows?

There, Williams will have seven matches to separate her from the elusive calendar-year Grand Slam—a feat not accomplished in tennis since the 1998 year. She'll undoubtedly be the top seed and seems all but guaranteed to be better than an even-money favorite.

Ryan Nanni of SBNation.com noted the ridiculous streak she'll enter that tournament on:

While she'll obviously enter that tournament as a big favorite and should be expected to win, that doesn't mean things will be easy for her. Every opponent she faces will have a bullseye square on Williams' back and will be desperately trying to play her career-best in order to take down the legend.

Of course, nobody knows about dealing with those challenges better than Williams herself, who admitted she already has Flushing Meadows on her mind:

It goes without saying that she'll get a championship test from each one of her opponents simply based on who she is, but that hasn't exactly stopped her over the last year-plus in Grand Slam settings. It likely won't stop her this time, either, with it becoming increasingly apparent that no opponent can beat her when she's on her game.

Williams may have more low-seeded challengers later in the draw than she saw at Wimbledon, with the likes of Petra Kvitova and Simona Halep sure to stick around longer than they did in England. But she had no problem dispatching opponents like Maria Sharapova and Muguruza, which leads one to believe there may just not be anyone out there capable of beating her at this time.

Don't expect anything but more of the same from Williams at the U.S. Open as she chases further legend status.