Posted on 07/07/2012 10:59:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Serena Williams, who had already eliminated defending Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and second-seeded Victoria Azarenka, who had won this season's first major title at the Australian Open, took down third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska on Saturday to win her fifth Wimbledon title and her career 14th major championship.
Williams, who had last won a Grand Slam title here two years ago, first overpowered and then outlasted the 23-year-old Radwanska, 6-3, 5-7, 6-2. Radwanska was playing in her first Grand Slam final.
Shortly after Williams, 30, dominated the 2010 Wimbledon championships, she had a foot injury that required surgery and then a pulmonary embolism that combined to keep her away from tennis for almost a year.
She made her return to majors tennis here a year ago but was upset in the fourth round. Williams suffered an unexpectedly decisive loss in the finals of the 2011 U.S. Open to Samantha Stosur, then lost in the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open and in the first round of the French Open last May.
But Williams, seeded sixth, overpowered the field here. In the second game of the second set against the Radwanska, Williams set a new Wimbledon women's record with her 90th ace and that stellar serving kept all her opponents off balance.
Williams got better as the tournament progressed. She survived 25th-seeded Jie Zheng of China by winning 6-7 (5), 6-2, 9-7 in the third round and she needed all three sets to win her fourth-round match against Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5.
"I can't even describe it. I almost didn't make it," Williams said. "A few years ago, you know, I was in the hospital, and now I'm here again. It's so worth it, and I'm so happy."
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Yuck.
With all due respect, that Polish chick she played today was pretty awful.
Congrats to a fellow S. Floridian! I think it is pretty impressive, given the medical issues she has overcome.
Welcome back and congratulations Serena!
I beg to differ. Some of us (probably most of us) like our women sweaty and athletic.
And tacky, classless, boorish and rude?
That's the only thing my ex wife and I had in common :>)
That’s a man, baby!
We need more black women and men like her...winners, and not just in athletics, to break the loser dependent mentality that too many blacks currently have.
I don’t think it’s fair for her to play against women.
“I beg to differ. Some of us (probably most of us) like our women sweaty and athletic.”
Gays think there are far more gays then there actually are.
“I beg to differ. Some of us (probably most of us) like our women sweaty and athletic.”
To each his own. See posts 7, 8, & 10.
“Gays think there are far more gays then there actually are.”
Classic.
Amazingly, she doesn’t really appear to be all that fit.
I don’t like her but I’d have to congratulate her. She’s done well.
Good for you, Serena!
You’ve got grit, drive and determination...
Ed
Isn’t this the player who threatened to kill, or hurt, a line ref. (or some official anyway), during a match at a tournament a couple of years ago?
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