There is by now a numbing effect to the decades‑long dominance of Serena Williams, who on Saturday captured the Australian Open championship for a seventh time to eclipse Steffi Graf’s record for major titles in the Open era, all but silencing the few stubborn holdouts who referred to the record book to deny that she is the best there has ever been.
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