DISH FOR GARBINE IS HER CUP OF TEA

GARBINE MUGURUZA knew she would get her hands on the Venus Rosewater Dish on Saturday if she beat Venus Williams. But the cracker from Caracas had no idea the key to Wimbledon’s front door came with the silver. Beaming with pride after crushing the five-time champion and grabbing the badge, freshly inked with her name and pinned to her tracksuit top, Muguruza said: “A man came before to give me this. “And I was like, ‘What the hell does this mean?’ “I can come here for tea now. It is incredible. “I feel like I have joined an incredible, historic club. “I will hopefully enjoy it in the next years — I am going to bring my pin every year.” Muguruza etched her name into Wimbledon’s record books with a thumping 7-5 6-0 victory – accepted gracefully by 37-year-old Williams (right) – and claimed a second Grand Slam crown to go with the French Open title she won last year. “It feels different to Paris,” she said. “It felt bigger when I won the French Open because then it was like, ‘I won a Grand Slam!’” At 23, the Venezuela-born Spaniard is still young, but experience has already taught her that she must deal with the lows as well as the highs of her sport.

She said: “In two weeks, again I’ll be playing a tournament so my life’s not going to really change.

“They said that when I won the French Open my life was going to change – but it hasn’t.

“People have this love-hate relationship with tennis because it’s hard in defeat but it’s very nice when you win, so it’s a combination and I also feel like that. “When you win, everything is beautiful and when you lose, everything is darker. So it’s hard.

“People think that when you win it’s so easy but it’s not easy to handle it.”

For now, Muguruza can enjoy her moment in the sun and the £2.2million she scooped for winning Wimbledon, although she insisted the only treat she had planned was a new dress for last night’s champions dinner.

“What other things do I like to do?” she pondered. “I am still searching for them.

“It is hard because I have played since I was three years old and everything is tennis, tennis, and I’m super passionate about it. I love it.

“But I always like to cook, music… I just try to be like a regular girl, or woman. That is it.”

Just a regular woman and now a Wimbledon champion.