Serena Williams has won the French Open title for the third time after beating Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2. In the Singles finals of the French Open.
The World Number one could have gifted Safarova the title without hitting a single ball as she had taken ill before the finals but the American dug in deep to produce the stuff that champions are made of in a match that saw The top-ranked American beat Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2 Saturday.
Serena now has 20 majors to her name and if she can go on to win at Wimbledon and also at the US Open she will tie with Steffi Graff’s 22 majors, although the record for the highest number of majors for women is held by Margaret Smith Court with 24 majors, but many are saying that Serena might just be in line to meet this tally or even Surpass it.
The Thirty three year old American is Also just five match victories from catching up with Graff on the al time list of players with the most victories, She currently on 273 while Graff is on 278, Martina Navratilova tops this list with 306 titles.
Serena Williams Major list:
6 US Opens
6 Australian Open
5 Wimbledon title
3 French open title
Stanislas Wawrinka Is New King of Clay…
Stanislas Wawrinka today came back from one set down to put paid to world Number one Novak Djokovic’s plan of becoming only the eight man to complete the set of all majors at the same time.
Both men played a thrilling game that ended 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-4 in favour of the 30 year Old former Australian Open Champion.
Wawrinka Who had earlier defeated countryman and one time Olympic Doubles partner Roger Federer in the Semi-Finals gave good account of himself to overcome the 28 year old Serbian tennis ace.
This is the only the second Grand slam title in Wawrinka’s entire career after he defeated Rafael Nadal 6–3, 6–2, 3–6, 6–3 last year to claim the Australian Open.
The Swiss star who at 30 became the oldest winner of the French Open in 25 years will climb to the number four position when the ranking are released monday.
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