Serena starts well 2-0
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Di final
2015-01-31 03:55:36
2015-01-31 04:25:51
Oops!
5-2 Serena - she will serve for di first set.
2015-01-31 04:26:46
In reply to Chrissy
[edited]
5-2....Serena seem to really be struggling with that cough...
She go try to make this quick....
2015-01-31 04:28:16
In reply to hotarobin
LOL -corrected
2015-01-31 04:29:29
In reply to Chrissy
Serena in Sharapova head....as always
2015-01-31 04:30:33
In reply to hotarobin
Gives one break away
3-5
2015-01-31 04:31:31
In reply to hotarobin
Well it's 11 years of licks
2015-01-31 04:34:43
1st set to di queen
2015-01-31 04:35:02
dese commies always supporting the persons on the other side of the court against the Williams sisters....
2015-01-31 04:36:35
In reply to Chrissy
no other player understands the value of free points like Serena....
Serena is a giant even amonst the men...
2015-01-31 04:41:49
Dis looking like murda
Good hold dat Mawga
2015-01-31 04:42:41
Poor Chrissy - she's in the anyone but Serena camp - dat 19 gwin burn real bad.
2015-01-31 04:43:26
In reply to hotarobin
Evert is di worst of them - one more love hold
2015-01-31 04:43:36
In reply to Chrissy
that was a good hold from Sharapova....
2015-01-31 04:45:12
In reply to Chrissy
ok I obviously watching a delayed feed...
2015-01-31 04:52:47
In reply to Chrissy
other players ace....Serena knows WHEN to ace...free points!!
2015-01-31 05:23:24
Sharapova fighting though...I will give her that...
2015-01-31 05:36:24
In reply to hotarobin
Game,set and match to di queen!!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah #19 in a dem pweffen!!!
2015-01-31 05:36:28
In reply to hotarobin
Game,set and match to di queen!!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah #19 in a dem pweffen!!!
2015-01-31 05:38:59
In reply to Chrissy
What a Great champion! 
2015-01-31 05:39:45
In reply to Chrissy
impressed with Sharapova's fight....she thew everything on the court...BUT the best ever won!!
2015-01-31 05:40:41
In reply to Chrissy
What lu-lu land was Serena in?
She didn't even realize she had won.
Congrats however to a most deserving Queen.
2015-01-31 05:40:43
In reply to Chrissy
There is no one that understands the value of FREE POINTS like Serena...
2015-01-31 05:41:08
Great game that!! No. 19 !!
2015-01-31 05:42:29
In reply to ProWI
didn't you see the premature celebration?? it was natural for her to be subdued in her reaction the second time around....
2015-01-31 05:42:57
In reply to hotarobin
Mawga teks di 16th straight loss against Serena.
Wuh loss????? Off to market and Mona Dam after di ceremony.
2015-01-31 05:43:34
This victory was "Samprasian" with that serve.
2015-01-31 05:45:36
In reply to Trinidave
Seriously - OZ Open #6
2015-01-31 05:52:01
19 BABY!
2015-01-31 05:52:26
In reply to Chrissy
Look here...no one wants to concede the greatness to Serena. But dem going to have to do it...they will have to eventually say that she is the greatest of all time. A stadium will be named in her honour and in the honour of venus.
2015-01-31 06:00:40
Wow, what a final...Serena beats Sharapova 6-3,7-6 to win her 19th Grand Slam singles title.
All tournament, Serena was suffering from fever, flu, cold, cough, etc, and still battled through to win!
IMHO, this was her best ever title, because of the illness she had to fight. It should rank her as one of the two greatest women to have played the game in the Open era, alongside Steffi Graf.
2015-01-31 06:19:42
Serena is now THE best ever. No doubt....pretty much no debate.
Sharapova herself woulda killed Hingis and Everett on the court, and woulda given Graff fitts. Not to mention Venus. Serena has dominated them both.
There is no doubt and no real debate...I have seen Jordan, Bolt, Serena, Brady, Manning, Tiger*, Emmitt, Barry Sanders....Great competitors and great entertainment. I have never allowed myself to be drawn in by hype...but man, it's been great.
2015-01-31 08:13:29
In reply to hotarobin
They alone?
What about the crowds?
2015-01-31 08:30:53
They come in all varieties. There are micromanagers and bloviators. There are delegators and relegators and benevolent despots. Kiss-ups and kick-downs. There are authentic leaders and natural born chiefs. Name a workforce and, almost by definition, there is a boss. In sports, bosses cut a remarkably wide swath. Armed with talking points, projecting defiance as he defends what is often indefensible, Roger Goodell is one kind of boss. Adam Silver, self-deprecating and often smiling, is another.
Tennis has bosses, too. Many, in fact, given its oxymoronic fractured structure. But the sport’s uberboss might be Serena Williams. She has won more major titles than anyone else currently playing. She has a cast of underlings and an entire tour that bends to her accord.
The 2015 Australian Open animated Serena-as-boss. Early on, she looked sluggish. She faced 31 break points through the first six rounds of the tournament. For the first week, Serena looked disengaged. In two of her first four matches, she dropped the first set. For the first week, it looked like her older sister—herself a tennis boss at one time—might be more likely to win the title.
Then, when it was time to get down to brass tacks, the Boss came to work. This is how she rolls. This is how she has always rolled. How did she respond to those 31 break points? By making 23 first serves, winning 21 of them, eight of them by serving aces. How did she respond once she dropped those first sets? By winning 6-2, 6-0, 6-3, and 6-2. The second week of the tournament? [b]In the last three rounds, when the competition is (notionally) tightest, she lost a grand total of 21 games and zero sets.
[/b]
In tonight’s final against Maria Sharapova, Serena reconfirmed that, yes, she is the boss. Though cast as rivals, they have rivalry the way a juicer has a rivalry with an orange. Their record is not a head-to-head, so much as it is a foot-to-backside. What started as a “streak” has since grown legs and tale. Coming into this match, Serena had beaten Sharapova 15 straight times, going back more than 15 years. As Serena put it the other day: “I think my game matches up well against her. I love playing her. I think it’s fun. I love her intensity. For whatever reason, I love playing. I have the time of my life.”
And then there is the matter of clutch play. As Sharapova, admirably, found her game and dialed in her shots, Williams went one better. Serena sent 18 aces hissing across the net and won 84 percent of her first serves. In a tiebreaker, Serena, predictably, summoned her best work. Serving at match point, Serena hit ace, only to get a dubious let call. She smiled, inhaled and hit the exact same serve for another ace. That’s her career, distilled to its essence.
[b]The hallways here are adorned with photos of former champions. After still another close, Serena left the court, headed to the locker room and passed them all. Evert, Navratilova, Monica Seles, Graf.
Serena kept walking. Walking like a boss.[/b]]
Tennis has bosses, too. Many, in fact, given its oxymoronic fractured structure. But the sport’s uberboss might be Serena Williams. She has won more major titles than anyone else currently playing. She has a cast of underlings and an entire tour that bends to her accord.
The 2015 Australian Open animated Serena-as-boss. Early on, she looked sluggish. She faced 31 break points through the first six rounds of the tournament. For the first week, Serena looked disengaged. In two of her first four matches, she dropped the first set. For the first week, it looked like her older sister—herself a tennis boss at one time—might be more likely to win the title.
Then, when it was time to get down to brass tacks, the Boss came to work. This is how she rolls. This is how she has always rolled. How did she respond to those 31 break points? By making 23 first serves, winning 21 of them, eight of them by serving aces. How did she respond once she dropped those first sets? By winning 6-2, 6-0, 6-3, and 6-2. The second week of the tournament? [b]In the last three rounds, when the competition is (notionally) tightest, she lost a grand total of 21 games and zero sets.
[/b]
In tonight’s final against Maria Sharapova, Serena reconfirmed that, yes, she is the boss. Though cast as rivals, they have rivalry the way a juicer has a rivalry with an orange. Their record is not a head-to-head, so much as it is a foot-to-backside. What started as a “streak” has since grown legs and tale. Coming into this match, Serena had beaten Sharapova 15 straight times, going back more than 15 years. As Serena put it the other day: “I think my game matches up well against her. I love playing her. I think it’s fun. I love her intensity. For whatever reason, I love playing. I have the time of my life.”
And then there is the matter of clutch play. As Sharapova, admirably, found her game and dialed in her shots, Williams went one better. Serena sent 18 aces hissing across the net and won 84 percent of her first serves. In a tiebreaker, Serena, predictably, summoned her best work. Serving at match point, Serena hit ace, only to get a dubious let call. She smiled, inhaled and hit the exact same serve for another ace. That’s her career, distilled to its essence.
[b]The hallways here are adorned with photos of former champions. After still another close, Serena left the court, headed to the locker room and passed them all. Evert, Navratilova, Monica Seles, Graf.
Serena kept walking. Walking like a boss.[/b]]
2015-01-31 09:32:03
No matter how many slams Serena wins, Steffi Graf's game to me will remain the best I have ever seen.
2015-01-31 11:31:22
In reply to django
Steffi Graf's game to me will remain the best I have ever seen.
Then you haven't seen much tennis, Steffi's game was monotonous slice backhand, she lacked the variety of shots even though her contemporaries displayed more variety of shots, darn Steffi couldn't come over her backhand.
If Steffi Graf didn't have Monica Seles knee capped the way Tanya Harding did on Nancy Kerrigan, Graf would definitely not had close to 22 slams. I would much rather watch Sharapova than Graf, after all, sport and tennis is about entertaining the crowd and there is nothing about a slice backhand that's entertaining.
2015-01-31 12:03:36
In reply to ToldUSo
darn Steffi couldn't come over her backhand.
If Steffi Graf didn't have Monica Seles knee capped the way Tanya Harding did on Nancy Kerrigan, Graf would definitely not had close to 22 slams.
If Steffi Graf didn't have Monica Seles knee capped the way Tanya Harding did on Nancy Kerrigan, Graf would definitely not had close to 22 slams.
Not only could Graf come over with her backhand it was a beautiful and effective shot. Graf used this shot mainly when the opponent hit to her backhand and came into net thus providing Graf with a target to go for an outright winner. Her slice backhand was far more than a defensive shot, she kept it very low and used it to push her rival off the court which then set up the next shot to be an outright forehand winner. Check de tapes.
With regard to your second contention I hope you have sent the relevant evidence to the police so they can deal with this matter.
I am a big Graf fan but no female player is in the same class as Serena...GOAT...for now
2015-01-31 13:45:16
In reply to django
What kinda tennis you watching. Grafs slice back hand was laking in variety. It was basically a defensive shot. The most complete player ever so far has been Serena.
Serena like Djoker manouvers players into positions to use their back hands for points not just to set up big forehands. Dont need to - power from both ends.
Djokers cheating to the backhand side against Stan was wonderful tactics. He forced Stan to either beat him up the line or with the forehand. Yep he got some but the full swing with force was met with a balanced return.
2015-01-31 14:52:22
In reply to dale_staple
A stadium will be named in her honour and in the honour of venus.
If they build one in Compton maybe
2015-01-31 14:58:48
In reply to Chrissy
Nice article sis
In tonight’s final against Maria Sharapova, Serena reconfirmed that, yes, she is the boss. Though cast as rivals, they have rivalry the way a juicer has a rivalry with an orange. Their record is not a head-to-head, so much as it is a foot-to-backside. What started as a “streak” has since grown legs and tale.
Oh GYAD!
The hallways here are adorned with photos of former champions. After still another close, Serena left the court, headed to the locker room and passed them all. Evert, Navratilova, Monica Seles, Graf.
Serena kept walking. Walking like a boss.
Serena kept walking. Walking like a boss.
FOR SERENA......LOOK TROUBLE NOW
2015-01-31 15:59:13
That article was brutal.
Poor Sharapova.
2015-01-31 16:02:06
In reply to Commie
But its the honest truth. Sharapova has long ago stopped being a rival. She is another competitor. If u have not beaten someone in over 10 years....its no longer a rivalry.
2015-01-31 16:13:32
In reply to dale_staple
Still Brutal.
She got to the semifinal and has gotten to the point where she is the one who often faces Serena.
In that sense she is unlucky.
I looked it up. They have met 18 times and have met in 8 finals and 4 semis. This means that Serena has been the biggest impediment to Sharapova herself being a great.
She is not just another competitor. She has won 5 grand slams and has made 32 million dollars in her career.
She is just unlucky to come up against the best of her generation and all time.
Sharapova’s 34 singles titles and five Grand Slam titles — two at the French Open and one at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open — rank third amongst active players, behind Serena and Venus Williams. She won the year-ending WTA Finals in her debut in 2004. In 2012 she won an Olympic silver medal for Russia at the London Games. She has also won three doubles titles.
2015-01-31 18:47:53
In reply to imusic
One beautiful read dat
2015-01-31 18:53:17
In reply to NineMiles
Di best joke is di media telling me about close match. I thought dat would tek three sets. Serena dusted her out properly int he first set and should have wont he second set earlier.
Serena did not play three sets once for the second week.
2015-01-31 18:55:34
In reply to Commie
Venus didn't reach a QF in several years and Sharapova still hasn't caught up with her. Nuff said.
For the record the vast majority of females today are tres ordinary.
2015-01-31 19:08:21
In reply to Chrissy
Amen and amen. Madison Keys is the next super star and it took Serena to stop her. Had Mawga played Madison, Mawga would still have lost.
2015-01-31 19:14:29
In reply to dale_staple
Not sure because experience and nerves are hard di first time around but Madison will be winning Slams. She will have to take very good care of herself - don't like those injuries while she's so young.
2015-01-31 19:29:13
In reply to Chrissy
Its a strange era. The very best and not much else.
2015-01-31 19:46:51
In reply to Commie
it's not so strange...the others would look great and the stats would be different IF Serena didn't exist but she does and so it's just a wide gap between her and them...every game is on her racket all the time...
2015-01-31 20:00:44
In reply to hotarobin
I think the previous era had greater depth too don't you think?
2015-01-31 20:52:24
In reply to Commie
maybe but I think that Serena standing so high above them, essentially redefining the standard makes it appear that there is not much depth. Essentially if there were no Serena then I don't think we would be having this conversation....
2015-01-31 21:05:40
In reply to Commie
There is more depth in the women's game than ever before, if it weren't for Serena, both Venus and Sharapova would have had 10 plus grand slams. With 7 slams, Venus could easily have had 12 slams.
As for the men, there is incredible talent on the circuit, more than we ever had.
2015-01-31 22:11:57
In reply to ToldUSo
The men certainly.
Women? Debatable.
2015-02-01 00:23:53
In reply to Chrissy & dale_staple
The ONLY thing mawga bout Maria is her grand slam title total.
Otherwise, that there is a fine (no pun intended) lookin bushie
2015-02-01 01:47:08
In reply to dale_staple
A stadium will be named in her honour and in the honour of venus.
Who??????
DWL!!!!!!!
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