Serena Williams' majestic triumph in Charleston alarms other players – Tennis News
Former world number one, Serena Williams, loves her time in Paris having attended several fashion shows but her on-court performance is also sublime in this part of the world. She is the only active player to have won all four
Grand Slams in her career having registered a clean sweep in the year 2003.
However, she hasn’t won any clay court tournament apart from the Roland Garros French Open triumph in 2003. The only other title she won was in the last week at the Family Circle Cup when she stomped over the Czech contestant,
Lucie Safarova, to win the title on red dirt.
In an interview about her clay court experience, she stated, “I really love the clay. I feel like it suits my game. I don't have to go crazy and move my feet so much. And it's no different from hard or grass - I should be able
to play the same and do the same, if not better, because I have more time."
Charleston was the luckiest tour for the American who registered her first title triumph in 2012 there. Surprisingly, Williams had never made it to the final of any tournament ever since her Grand Slam triumph in French Open in
2003. Last week’s final was her second appearance in the grand finale of all kinds of Red Clay court tournaments.
Talking about her campaign in Charleston, she said, “I've never played, I can say, consistently at such a high level with low errors the last two matches and the scary thing is I could've served so much better." Everyone in the
women tennis circuit is alarmed by the majestic comeback of the American. She has smashed record 108 aces in her four tournament appearances this year; surpassing all women tennis stars in that category.
She has climbed back into the Top-10 category having being dropped out of it in the end of the last year due to a lengthy injury lay-off. She is ranked number nine in the world just surpassing the Russian tennis ace, Vera Zvonareva,
after her triumph in the Family Circle Cup.
Williams has taken a month off from professional tennis but will be training at home before she heads up to Madrid and Rome in May. She might not be playing as much tennis as the other women players but whenever she is found in
the draw, the odds of the top seed players winning the tournament drastically diminishes.
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