Margaret Court, who holds the record for winning the most number of Grand Slams in tennis, has said that American superstar Serena Williams will break her record, which stands at 24 Majors.
Serena, who will be defending her Australian Open title, barely five-months after giving birth to her daughter, Alexis Olympia is the hot favorite to eclipse her record as she already has 23 Grand Slam crowns to her name.
“I don’t lose any sleep over her chasing my records,” says Court. “I don’t think anybody will break the 62, but the 24 will probably go. Even Federer is on 19.”
Court won 62 Grand Slams in total including 24 in singles and 38 in doubles. She caused a massive controversy in her home nation Australia recently, when she opposed a legislation to legalize gay marriage in the country. The 75-year-old is now a pastor in Perth, instilling Christian values in children from a young age.
Court justified her statements against the legalization of same-sex marriages across the world.
“I have stood up for family and things,” she says. “So you get a bit of criticism. I have nothing against people from a homosexual background but they think I hate them and I don’t. I help them to overcome.”
“You renew your mind. As a man thinketh, so is he. I give my beliefs. I believe in freedom of speech but you get very persecuted because of what you say.”
“The scriptures changed my life,” she says. “I only wish I’d known them when I was playing tennis. I would have won six Wimbledon singles titles, not three. Because it’s so much in the mind. In the Gospels and the Epistles, you learn how to live a victorious life.”
“I look back at my past life and I pinch myself and think, ‘Did I ever really do it?’ I will go to Wimbledon and I think, ‘I did play out there.’ It’s funny. Life’s but a wisp.”
