Hi, I'm Layton Huett and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on ladies' finals day,

a day in which Serena Williams has won her 21st Grand Slam singles title.

She stands just one short now of Steffi Graff, three behind Margaret Cors.

Is she the greatest player of all time? We might be asking the same today about Roger Federer as

he goes for his 18th Grand Slam singles title against the current World No. 1 Novach Okavic,

and we are going to preview that as well. Here on the tennis podcast brought to you in association

with the telegraph. We're supported by BNP Parabar, the bank for a changing world and alongside

myself and Catherine Whittaker today is Daniel Scofield from the telegraph. Daniel, how you doing?

Very well, on yourself. I'm very well indeed Simon Briggs at the moment is an off-for-around

table they call it. That means they get round around table and they talk to Serena Williams,

who's won the title here, and Catherine Whittaker, it was competitive, it was a great start,

particularly for Garbina Mugurufer, but she couldn't finish it off.

She, well she came, it was more than a great start, it was a great start, a dodgy middle,

a very good third act and then a predictable fourth act, but she deserves a significant credit,

I think, as Serena was full of praise for her and her post-match interviews, and I think she

showed a bit more particularly in that second set than people were expecting of her, and I think

that's really important. She showed what she's made of in glimpses and I think that's great,

and she deserves an enormous amount of credit, but it's Serena's days and it's all about Serena.

She's amazing. Serena Williams is amazing. That is 21 grand slam title. She now holds the

Interverticon of Serena slam for the second time, all four at the same time. She could complete

the calendar slam with victory in six weeks to eight weeks time at the US Open. The woman,

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