Serena Williams makes history, advances to U.S. Open quarters after beating Yaroslava Shvedova to claim 308th win

Serena Williams set a new Grand Slam record of 308 victories with a win over Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan at the US Open on Monday afternoon September 5 in New York.

The 34-year-old world number one player won 6-2 6-3 yesterday to pass Roger Federer’s all-time record of 307 wins at a major.

"It's a huge number," Williams said of her record 308th win. I think it's very significant actually. I definitely never thought I would be playing still. Now I don't really see when I'm going to stop. I'm just enjoying these moments out here, getting to break records that I didn't even know existed or I didn't even know was possible."

Williams will face Romanian number five seed Simona Halep, the 2014 French Open runner up in the quarterfinals, who beat Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2 7-5.