Serena Williams revenges Australian Open loss with stunning performance

Serena Williams revenges Australian Open loss with stunning performance

The two top American players in the WTA were in action today, the defending champion Serena Williams was looking to revenge this year’s loss at the Australian Open against Sloane Stephens.

Serena started very strong on serve and only lost one point in the three first service games, Sloane was struggling to hold serve and in the 6^th game the world number one got the first break of serve. Sloane was not finished yet and pulled off two great games and leveled things up at 4 games all. When serving at 4 – 5, Stephens wasn’t able to hold serve and Serena claimed the first set after an unforced forehand error

Serena had to face break point in the start of the second set, but was able to hold serve and she was the first to get the break once again in this set in the 4^th game to get a 3 – 1 lead. This time Williams confirmed the break with a love hold of serve and after another drop of serve by Stephens, the 2012 champion was serving to close the match. Like in the first set, an unforced forehand error cost Stephens the set and also the match

In the next round Serena Williams will face the Carla Suarez Navarro, the Spanish pulled off a great victory over Angelique Kerber in a third set tie break. About the next match with Navarro, Serena said: “It will be a tough, but I hope you guys come here and support me!”

In the men’s competition the former number one Lleyton Hewitt continued his great performance in New York, after defeating Juan Martin Del Potro in the last round, the Australian won his match against Evgeny Donskoy in four sets.

Denis Istomin and Andreas Seppi played the 4^th consecutive match on a Grand Slam event, in the last three matches a fifth set was needed to determine the winner, this time the same has happened and was Istomin who got away with the victory after more than 3 hours of play.

Men’s singles:

Lleyton Hewitt 6 – 3 7 – 6 3 – 6 6 – 1 Evgeny Donskoy

Denis Istomin 6 – 3 6 – 4 2 – 6 3 – 6 6 – 1 Andreas Seppi

Women’s singles:

Serena Williams 6 – 4 6 – 1 Sloane Stephens

Carla Suarez Navarro 4 – 6 6 – 3 7 – 6 Angelique Kerber