The 37-year-old is setting his sights on becoming the oldest man to win a Grand Slam singles title
Naomi Osaka won the final 6-2, 6-4 to delay Williams’s bid for a record-equalling 24th major title.
Djokovic beat South Africa’s Kevin Anderson for the title on Sunday
Spain’s Rafael Nadal beat Austria’s Dominic Thiem in three straight sets for his 17th Grand Slam trophy
The 36-year-old last played a major tournament in a victorious 2017 Australian Open campaign while two months pregnant
World number one Novak Djokovic has leaped to the defense of Roger Federer, telling critics to give the 17-time major winner a break.
Roger Federer’s bid for a record 15th Grand Slam title got under way in familiar fashion as the five-times champion crushed Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun.
Roger Federer admits he will begin to feel the weight of history if his bid to break Pete Sampras’s Grand Slam record goes the distance at Wimbledon.
Maria Sharapova almost became the first women’s top seed in French Open history to lose in the opening round on Wednesday as Rafael Nadal showed her the way to master a Roland Garros sandstorm. Russian golden girl Sharapova toiled for two-and-a-half hours before squeezing past teenage compatriot and world number 104 Evgeniya Rodina 6-1, 3-6, 8-6.