Who was runner-up to Serena Williams in the 2012 Wimbledon women's singles final?

Agnieszka Radwańska was runner-up to Serena Williams in the 2012 Wimbledon women’s singles final.

Williams won the championship match 6–1, 5–7, 6–2 on Centre Court, claiming her fifth Wimbledon singles title. Radwańska, the third seed from Poland, was playing in her first Grand Slam singles final and became the first Polish player—male or female—to reach a major singles final in the Open Era.

The match was a landmark in Williams’s remarkable 2012 season. She had returned from serious health problems and a pulmonary embolism the previous year, then won Wimbledon and Olympic singles gold in the same summer. Her Wimbledon victory also restored her position among the sport’s dominant players.

Radwańska was not defeated in the semifinals by one of the other answer choices: she beat Germany’s Angelique Kerber in the last four. Williams reached the final by defeating Victoria Azarenka, who later won the bronze medal at the London Olympics. Radwańska eventually became world No. 2, but the 2012 Wimbledon final remained her only Wimbledon singles final.