If there were any doubts over the greatest female tennis player of the 21st century then Serena Williams certainly put them to bed on Saturday night.
Williams won her fifth Australian Open and 12th Grand Slam singles title when she defeated former world No.1 and arguably the second-best player of the past decade Justine Henin in the final.
The highly anticipated match lived up to its billing with both players playing their best before Williams finally triumphed 6-4 3-6 6-2 in just over two hours. The three-set battle was a welcome change to the previous four finals at Melbourne Park, which were all relatively one-sided encounters.
While Henin lost no friends in her amazing run to the final in just her second tournament back since announcing her retirement in May 2008, it is Williams who can now undisputedly lay claim to the title of best current player.
But what separates Williams even further from her rivals is that she has also won 11 Grand Slam doubles titles with sister Venus and two mixed doubles titles with Belarusian Max Mirnyi, giving her a total of 25 major titles.
In a generation where the top players rarely participate, let alone excel, in both singles and doubles, Williams' achievements are remarkable to say the least, but incredibly she only sits ninth on the all-time list, still 37 titles behind Australia's Margaret Court.
She is, however, one of just four players - Court, Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King being the others - to have won 10 Grand Slam titles in both singles and doubles.
Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov was the last man to have won major titles in both singles and doubles when he achieved the feat in the late 1990s, but he could only manage two titles in each category. Australian Roy Emerson is the only male to have won more than 10 major titles in both singles and doubles with 12 and 16 respectively.
It's taken over five years, but Williams looks like she is back to the consistent form that saw her dominate the sport from 2002 to mid-2003 when she became the fifth woman in history to hold all four Grand Slam titles simultaneously.
A string of injuries have hampered her since then, but she has now won four of the past seven Grand Slam tournaments and lost to the eventual champion in each of the other three. And at 28 years old, there is no reason why there won't be more major success for the American in the future.
None of the others players on tour can match her power and only returning stars Henin and Kim Clijsters appear to have the game and experience to trouble Williams on the big stage.