Garbine Muguruza insists she is high on confidence despite her final defeat to Serena Williams at Wimbledon.

The Venezuelan-born Spaniard will make her top-10 debut today as she stormed from No 20 to No 9 in the world thanks to her Wimbledon heroics and although she suffered a 6-4, 6-4 loss to Williams in the final on Saturday, Muguruza feels more encouraged than ever to get back on the practice court and do it all over again.

“I’m going to leave here being really motivated. I think I’m the most motivated person right now. This gives me a lot of power to keep practicing and improving, to see what else I can do in my next tournaments,” said the 21-year-old, who received an extended heart-warming standing ovation from the Centre Court crowd after the match.

“I’m playing really good. So keep working and see now the hard court season.”

Williams paid tribute to Muguruza on court and told her she would be lifting a grand slam trophy “very very soon”. Muguruza found it difficult to take it in at the time but admits it another reason to feel motivated moving forward.

“It’s good when you hear something like this from a legend. Well, in this moment I was like ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’” she said laughing.

“Obviously, what are you going to say? Hopefully I can do it. I was  close. It’s good to hear that. I feel better now.”

Williams’ coach Patrick Mouratoglou agrees with his charge and sees a bright future for Muguruza, who sports a big serve and aggressive game that caters to different surfaces.

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“I think she will win grand slams definitely. I think she was very nervous today, she didn’t play her best tennis at all. But she has a big game, the game of the future, big serve, aggressive returns, taking the balls on the rise, going forward… that’s the game to win grand slams.

“I hope as late as possible because Serena will try to prevent those people from winning slams,” said Mouratoglou.

For Muguruza, her march to her maiden grand slam final was a massive learning experience.

“I learned that every match is very important. The first rounds are really hard because you’re nervous,” said Muguruza.

“If you get through all these situations and you’re mentally tough, you have the chance to play like these kind of matches. Just I learned that it’s so hard, a grand slam. It’s like two weeks with a lot of emotion.”