The Wimbledon singles champions, Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic, closed the 2015 Championships with a dance. This isn’t standard practice anymore; the last two winners to cut a rug together were Bjorn Borg and Virginia Wade in 1977 (an event, I confess, that I find hard to picture). But a Serena and Novak show was an appropriate way for this fortnight to end. They’ve been waltzing past the opposition all season. If Djokovic had beaten Stan Wawrinka in the French Open final, each would be coming to New York next month with a chance at a calendar-year Grand Slam. It’s hard to remember a time when two players so dominated the tours over the course of a season.

In the end, there were no big surprises at this year’s Wimbledon, but nothing ever seems that easy or straightforward as it’s happening. Here’s a look back at who did their best—and a few who did their worst—to make this fortnight a memorable one.

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Dominance often begets boredom in sports, but that hasn’t been the case with Serena at the last two majors. What was most impressive about her sixth Wimbledon title was the variety of ways she found to win. She survived a shipwreck against Heather Watson in the third round; kept her emotions at bay against her sister Venus in the fourth; refused to lose in the best match of the tournament, against Victoria Azarenka in the quarters; played with meticulous command against Maria Sharapova in the semis; and held on for dear life against her own nerves, and Garbine Muguruza, in the closing moments of the final. The first Serena Slam, when she tore through the competition as a world-beating 21-year-old, was a jaw-dropping accomplishment. The second one, when she was forced to find every conceivable way to win as a more experienced—and thus vulnerable—33-year-old, was even better. A+

When Djokovic walked off the court a loser after the final at Roland Garros, he rued the fact that he hadn’t played the same “courageous” tennis as his opponent, Stan Wawrinka. Judging from the way he powered through Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final a month later, Novak took his own advice. He hit out and served big in the important moments, and he even found a way to use his annoyance and anger at the pro-Federer audience to help him. As his coach, Boris Becker, advised during the rain delay, Nole “kept on punching,” right through his defiant celebration after match point. If you’re going to praise his game for being “machine-like,” you might first try to remember that he isn’t one. It makes his achievement at Wimbledon, and this season, that much more impressive. A+

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Muguruza, who vaulted from No. 20 to No. 9 with her run to the final, is a heavy hitter who plays a thoughtful game. I said it with Lucie Safarova last month in Paris, and I’ll say it again here: It’s hard to think of a more appealing addition to the top of the sport than the breezily confident, 21-year-old Spaniard. And while she made her name in defeat, her finest moment came in victory. In her third-rounder against Angelique Kerber, Muguruza gritted and pounded her way through the best, most intense set and tiebreaker of the tournament. A

When it was over, he seemed unsure whether to be happy or unhappy with the result, and you can understand why. Six wins at Wimbledon, and an all-time great performance in the semifinals against Andy Murray, is something any 33-year-old player would dream about. But Federer isn’t any 33-year-old player. He had been pointing to a Wimbledon title all season, and as he said, he felt “empty-handed” walking away with the runner-up plate instead. There were two moments in the final when an eighth title appeared to be a possibility: When he went up a break in the first set, and when he pulled off a miracle comeback to win the second-set tiebreaker. In the first set, Federer gave the break right back; in the third and fourth sets, he played his least-confident, most indecisive tennis of the fortnight. A-

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His quarterfinal win over Wawrinka was the match of the men’s event, and a brief moment of gritty redemption for the tragic Richard G. It’s rare when I think that a match gets better after 6-6 in the final set, but we were all better off without a tiebreaker in this one. Except, maybe, Richard G. He had to play Djokovic 40 hours later. A-

In the two years since he won the Wimbledon title, Murray has been blown out by more aggressive ball-strikers on Centre Court. This year he managed his matches well through the early going, but he needed a lot more than steady match management against Federer in the semis. Is it too late, at 28, for a grass-court makeover? B+

Why, Aga asked her team in the player’s box, why did you tell me to challenge? Unfortunately, that image, of Radwanska making a disastrous, incorrect challenge at the end of her semifinal against Muguruza, is the most memorable of what might otherwise be a season-saving run for her. B+

With her game and her words, the not-so-laid-back California girl brought a dynamic fearlessness to the court and the interview room. Hope she keeps bringing it. B+

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She seems, finally, to have found her A game again. Vika’s quarterfinal loss to Serena was the match of the event. It was also one where complaining about the noise that the two women were making seemed entirely beside the point. Who would have wanted Vika or Serena to hold anything back that day? B+

She battered her way past mediocre competition into the quarters, and into the Top 20 for the first time. Then Radwanska taught the 20-year-old a lesson, one that the 21-year-old Muguruza seemed already to understand: You need to follow your good shots forward on grass. B

Aside from double-faulting away the fourth set of his quarterfinal against Gasquet, there wasn’t much for Stan to regret. He plays high-risk tennis, and sometimes it doesn’t pay off. B

One of the highlights of the fortnight was watching JJ, over the course of three sets against Petra Kvitova, finally find her feel on grass. Even better was watching her take a tumble on it after she won. B

For the second straight year, she lost early to the eventual champion. With the right draw, she still may have a deep run left in her here. B

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Everyone had an opinion on the audacious Aussie, a fact that should tell you one thing right away: He’s good for tennis. Hopefully he’ll learn that the most entertaining things about him are his easy-rocking serve, his buggy-whip forehand, and his skill under pressure. That’s really all it takes to be a star. B

She gave the Centre Court crowd its biggest thrill of the fortnight against Serena, and while she came up short, I liked the sly way she got underneath the American’s game. Not exactly a foolproof strategy, but it almost worked. B

Brown continued the tradition begun by Lukas Rosol in 2012 and continued by Steve Darcis in 2013 and Kyrgios in 2014: Playing out of your mind to beat Rafael Nadal on Centre Court. Brown used the same template as Rosol and Kyrgios: move fast, serve huge, take the ball on the rise, and let it rip. For four sets, Brown made beating Rafa, and playing tennis, look easy. Then he made it look hard again in the next round. B

Is his serve, at age 36, getting better? B

Her brazen, fast-footed attack against Ana Ivanovic made for some of the most exciting tennis of the tournament. B

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Is he just not hitting the ball well at the moment? Are his grass-court glory days a thing of the past? Is the game passing him by? We’ll know more by the end of the U.S. Open. C

Any top player can win when they’re playing well. Eventual champions, like the top-seeded Serena, find a way to do it when they aren’t. The second-seeded Kvitova couldn’t find that way. C-

After feeling the heat in France, she said she tried to play without pressure in England. There’s no running from it. C-