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SERENA BAGS TITLE
MELBOURNE: A sickly Serena Williams gave
Maria Sharapova another
serving of Grand Slam
heartbreak yesterday to
win the Australian Open
and bolster her claims to be the all-time
greatest player with her 19th major title.
Though wheezing, coughing and forced
off court to be sick during a rain-break, Serena serve stayed in the rudest of health and
her athleticism astonished in a nerve-shredding 6-3 7-6(5) victory under the lights of
Rod Laver Arena.
In sealing her sixth title at Melbourne
Park, Serena surpassed Martina Navratilova,
the woman who handed her the trophy, and
Chris Evert in Grand Slam title wins, while
drawing level with fellow American Helen
Wills Moody, third in the all-time list.
At 33, the oldest Australian Open winner
in the professional era and still the boss,
Serena left few in doubt that the pursuit of
Steffi Graf’s 22 titles and Margaret Court’s
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TODAY’S FINALS
(x denotes seeding):
Rod Laver Arena
(8am Bahrain time)
Mixed doubles final
K Mladenovic (FRA)/D Nestor (CAN x3)
v M Hingis (SUI)/L Paes (IND x7)
(11.30am Bahrain time)
Singles final
N Djokovic (SRB x1) v A Murray (GBR x6)
24 would continue.
“I would love to get to 22,” the top seed
said. “Nineteen was very difficult to get to.
Took me 33 years to get here. So I would
love to get there. But I have to get to 20
first, and then I have to get to 21.
“There’s so many wonderful young players coming up, so it will be a very big task.
“(Nineteen) was my goal. So I didn’t
think it would happen this fast, to be honest, but it feels really good.”
In her 19th match against Sharapova, and
after defeating 19-year-old American Mad-
ison Keys in the semi-finals, it was Serena’s 18th ace that sealed the match on the
third match point. She bounded around the
court like a woman possessed, squealing
in delight as Sharapova sat quietly in her
chair, nursing the pain of a 16th straight defeat by Williams and a third loss in Grand
Slam finals to the American champion.
Steamrolled in the opening set, the fivetimes Grand Slam champion was magnificent in the second as she dragged herself
off the canvas and staved off defeat twice
on match points with crunching winners
that teased the lines.
A 2008 winner at Melbourne Park, but
runner-up to Serena in the 2007 tournament
and again at Roland Garros in 2013, Sharapova’s last win over the American came in
2004, when she was a 17-year-old sensation still finding her feet. Now 27, Sharapova said she felt she was getting closer to
crashing through the Serena wall.
Djokovic v Murray final preview; Collated
Results; Bolelli-Fognini pair win title – Page 31
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