Where does Serena Williams rank among the greatest ever Wimbledon champions?

The Wimbledon women's singles draw will see the return of genuine greatness this year, with Serena Williams having been granted a wild card.

The 23-time Grand Slam winner has not played a singles match for a year and had looked to have all but retired from tennis, especially when her coach Patrick Mouratoglou announced he was splitting from her due to her inactivity on the WTA Tour.

However, Serena is back for another try at SW19, and that is worth celebrating. Let's do just that be taking a look at where she stands in the list of most prolific Wimbledon singles champions.

You don't need to know an awful lot about tennis to know all about Bjorn Borg. The Swedish star was a 1970s icon, perhaps the first the sport ever knew.

His career was also as brief as it was brilliant. He won 11 Grand Slams, five of them at Wimbledon, before walking away from the sport at the very top while just 26 years old.

Serena Williams went on to have such an incredible career that it is sometimes quite easy to forget how good Venus Williams was.

Perhaps it is because his achievements elsewhere have been so remarkable that his Wimbledon record isn't the highlight of his own resume. Perhaps it is because two other men have won more titles than he has in SW19. Maybe it's because, for some reason, Djokovic is cast as the villain of the tennis narrative and there is just a general reluctance out there to give him his due.

For half the time that Pete Sampras was dominating the men's singles at Wimbledon, Steffi Graf was doing the same in the women's event.

Graf was a decent doubles player too, so she is ahead of Sampras here on account of the doubles title she won at Wimbledon in 1988.

Serena Williams will head to Wimbledon in 2022 seeking an eighth