Australia, Melbourne :
Serena Williams was a force to be reckoned with as she finally tasted victory on Thursday. Three ferocious serves – ace, ace, ace – sealed with a forehand winner at the net, and she was on to her seventh Australian Open final by defeating No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska 6-0, 6-4.
Williams has never lost an Australian Open final, where she’ll face first-time finalist Angelique Kerber. Kerber defeated Johanna Konta later Thursday, 7-5, 6-2.
Williams played an insanely quick first set, needing only 20 minutes to hand Radwanska the bagel. “I was able to do everything I needed to do. I was really hitting just all the right shots, making little to no errors,” she said later.
The world No. 1 carried her momentum into the second set, breaking Radwanska in the third game for a 2-1 advantage. Radwanska earned her only break of the match as Williams committed four unforced errors in the sixth game of that set. That was nearly a quarter of her 17 throughout an impressively clean match.
Serena Williams was a force to be reckoned with as she finally tasted victory on Thursday. Three ferocious serves – ace, ace, ace – sealed with a forehand winner at the net, and she was on to her seventh Australian Open final by defeating No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska 6-0, 6-4.
Williams has never lost an Australian Open final, where she’ll face first-time finalist Angelique Kerber. Kerber defeated Johanna Konta later Thursday, 7-5, 6-2.
Williams played an insanely quick first set, needing only 20 minutes to hand Radwanska the bagel. “I was able to do everything I needed to do. I was really hitting just all the right shots, making little to no errors,” she said later.
The world No. 1 carried her momentum into the second set, breaking Radwanska in the third game for a 2-1 advantage. Radwanska earned her only break of the match as Williams committed four unforced errors in the sixth game of that set. That was nearly a quarter of her 17 throughout an impressively clean match.
