The Bryans have won three doubles titles at the All England Club, and a record 16 Grand Slam titles overall.
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It’s exactly the one you’d expect.
Wimbledon, July 8 (IANS): Five-time champion Serena Williams fought back from a set down to defeat ex- World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka to set up a mouth-watering women’s singles semi-final against old rival Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon here. “I won all the grand slams, multiple times. The first four I played quite well and got the job done in two sets”.
But the 72 percent first-serve percentage that Azarenka managed in the opener proved hard to maintain (she dipped to 60 in the second and 59 in the third), and her lead slowly started to evaporate away as Williams continued to pester her second serve while staying relatively error-free. The world No. 1 had 14 aces and dropped only six first-serve points over the final two sets.
“We’re still fighting on that”, said Williams of scheduling differences between men and women.
We put on a great show, Azarenka said.
Williams, in typical fashion, remained unsatisfied.
Williams, understandably, loves playing Sharapova. Will Sharapova get ready to claim her second Wimbledon?
I mean, the 33-year-old American said, thats my game on grass just aces..
Sharapova overpowered Vandeweghe in the first set and then served for the match in the second before her opponent came back to win the tie-break and force a decider. Stone cold. It didn’t quite have the drama of her death-defying comeback against local favourite Heather Watson in the third round, or the clinical dismissal of her sister in the fourth round, but it was a statement all the same.
Williams responded with eight straight service points, majority from aces.
Azarenka exhorted herself with loud shouts and pumped her fists after winners, but couldn’t stop Williams from closing out the match.
“I’ve never seen her play like this, honestly”, Azarenka said. “If you have any other questions, I’m cool, but, you know, I’m done with that”. Williams has her sights set on completing the Grand Slam after winning the Australian and French Opens. She won 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 – her 17th victory over the Belarusian in 20 matches – under skies as gloomy as her prospects were until after an hour of the most intense struggle had passed on Centre Court, but the title looks hers to lose.
The other semifinal won’t have quite as much history.
American youngster Madison Keys was unable to unlock the defences of 2012 runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska, though, losing 7-6(3) 3-6 6-3 with the Pole now facing Muguruza.
Garbine Muguruza (20), Spain, def. Timea Bacsinszky (15), Switzerland, 7-5, 6-3. The next time she came close to winning this tournament after that was back in 2011, when she lost to Petra Kvitova.
“It is just unbelievable”.
“I’m so happy to be in another semi-final”.
“So I think maybe it’s time to just put it aside and not talk about it all the time because this is not what is important when there are two players on the Centre Court“. “Had a couple small opportunities in that last game at love-30″.
It is the first time a Spanish woman has made it through to the last four at Wimbledon since Arantxa Sanchez Vicario achieved the feat in 1997.
“I wasn’t taken aback by her whatsoever from a game standpoint”.
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The duo’s relationship has remained frosty ever since, occasionally turning nasty – as it did when they traded barbs about Sharapova dating Williams’ ex-boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov and the American’s own relationship with her French coach Patrick Mouratoglou.
