A flash back of Serena William’s 2010 performances
The top ranked American tennis ace, Serena Jameka Williams was born on 26th September, 1981 in the city of Michigan. The right handed Williams’ is honoured to have been ranked as the World Number One female tennis player for a total of five times by the ATP world player’s rankings. Williams was placed as the number one player back in 2002 on the very first occasion.
The 1.75 meters tall American tennis ace has grabbed a total of twenty seven Grand Slam titles so far in her professional tennis career. She has also captured a total of two doubles gold medals at the Olympics and is also the only female player who has won the most prize money than anyone else in the rich history of the game of tennis.
The aggressive baseline player, Serena Williams all through her 2010 season has won a couple of championships including the minor as well as the major ones. During her very fist championship of the season 2010, the American tennis ace knocked down Aravane Rezai in the semi final match of the Medi bank International Sydney tournament with a final match score as 3–6, 7–5, and 6–4. However, the black beauty was defeated by the last year’s winner Elena Dementieva in the final battle 6–3, 6–2.
At the hard court Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open, Williams finished off the competition as a winner in both the doubles as well as the singles contests.
As a result of her leg injury, the twenty eight years old Williams then missed a total of five championships in a row including the Sony Ericsson Open, the Premier Mandatory as well as the Dubai Tennis tournament.
She made a comeback to the tennis scene at the Internaxionsli BNL d’Italia which was held in Rome where Jelen Jankovic got the better of her in the semi final match with a final match score as 4–6, 6–3, 7–6(5).
Later on at the Mutua Madrlena Madrid Open championship, the American tennis ace faced an early first round exit. Afterwards, at the clay court French Open championship, the American tennis ace, Serena Williams won the first three rounds of the tournament comfortably and was then knocked down by Samantha Stosur in the quarterfinal stage with a final match score as 6–3, 6–7(2), 8–6.
The next tournament where the American participated was the grass court Grand Slam championship which was held at the All England Club. It proved to be a great tournament for Williams in the end. The women started off with a victory against Michelle Larcher De Brito in her first round match with a final match score of 6-0, 6-4. The women knocked down Anna Chakvetdze in her round number two match 6-0, 6-1 as well as Dominika Cibulkova in her third round clash with a final match score as 6-0, 7-5. Serena continued her winning momentum and won her fourth round match against Maria Sharapova and her quarterfinal clash versus Li Na. The American player met Petra Kvitova in her semi final battle and got the better of her with a final match score of 7-6(5), 6-2 and thus made her way into the final of the 2010 Wimbledon towards the start of this month.
In her final encounter with Vera Zvonareva, the powerful forehand player knocked down Vera 6-3, 6-2 to grab her 2010 grass court Grand Slam title.
After capturing the Wimbledon 2010 title at the All England Club from the Women’s side, the top ranked American tennis sensation Serena Williams was displayed on the cover page of the magazine named Sports Illustrated.
As far as the upcoming United States Open is concerned, her performance will largely depends on her foot recovery as she has undergone a foot surgery in the recent past. Anyhow, considering her overall performances during this season so far, there is no doubt about the fact that Serena Williams has proved the world that she is the sole power from the women’s side that deserves the top ranking beyond any measure of speculations.
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