Serena Williams (photo ©Emmett Anderson) reached the final defeating Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Melinda Czink, Jie Zheng, Yaroslava Shvedova, Petra Kvitova and Victoria Azarenka. She lost a total of two sets to Zheng and to Shvedova. It’s her seventh Wimbledon final and she won four of her previous six.
Agnieszka Radwanska reached the final defeating Magdalena Rybarikova, Elena Vesnina, Heather Watson, Camila Giorgi, Maria Kirilenko and Angelique Kerber. She lost one set to Kirilenko. It’s her first final in a Grand Slam tournament.
Serena Williams starts the match very well and breaks Agnieszka Radwanska twice in the second and fourth game. The American dominates the Pole with the power of her shots and easily wins the first set 6-1.
It starts raining and the match is suspended. After about half an hour the game is resumed, the second set starts and Serena Williams breaks Agnieszka Radwanska in the third game. The American slows down a bit and the Pole can keep her pace better, so much she breaks her opponent in the eighth game for the first time. Radwanska reads Williams’s shots better, instead the American makes some mistakes and in the twelfth game she loses her service game again and the second set. The Pole wins it 7-5 and it’s a surprise but she deservs it.
In the third set, Agnieszka Radwanska plays well but Serena Williams reacts, in the fourth game she does the perfect game with four aces and in the fifth game she breaks her opponent. The American accelerates her game pace again and breaks the Pole again in the seventh game. In the eighth game, Serena Williams wins the set 6-2 conquering the match and her fifth Wimbledon title.
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Agnieszka Radwanska is getting the best results of her career and on next Monday she’ll be no. 2 in the WTA rankings. Despite a very difficult first set and some respiratory issues she didn’t get discouraged and gave us a good final. She’s a great player technically however she lacks the power of her best opponents but can still improve and win a Grand Slam tournament.
Serena Williams arrived at Wimbledon with some doubt because she was eliminated in the first round at Roland Garros and seemed in bad shape. She found her shape through the tournament and in the latest rounds she defeated Kvitova, the now former champion, Azarenka, who Monday will be no. 1 in the rankings again, and Radwanska. When the match has become tough she stepped up to the task and won her fourteenth Grand Slam title showing once again that she’s a great champion.
