CAREER RECORDS BROKEN BY 2017 AUSTRALIAN OPEN WOMEN’S CHAMPION SERENA WILLIAMS:

* 23 grand slam singles titles (most of any player in the 49-year Open era, second all-time behind Australian Margaret Court)

* Seven Australian Open titles: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009-10, 2015, 2017 (most by any player in the Open era)

* Eight Australian Open finals (most by any woman in the Open era)

* 316 grand slam match wins (most by any player in the Open era)

* 81 Australian Open wins (most by any woman in the Open era)

* $US85,461,761 ($A113 million) career prize money (most in WTA history)

* Oldest women’s grand slam winner of the Open era (35 years, 125 days)