Serena Williams ends 2012 with seven WTA titles – Tennis News
Former world number one, Serena Williams, contested 64 matches in the current season and won 58 of them. She holds a stupendous winning rate of 90.6% throughout the season but the thing worth mentioning here is that three off the
six losses came through retirement and should not be counted in technical terms. So that leaves us to the maximum of three players that defeated the 31-year-old American at the courts after a complete match.
One of the major losses came in the opening round of the Roland Garros French Open when the third ranked American fall victim to the onslaught of the 169th ranked Frenchwoman, Virginie Razzano, who recorded a win on
May 29th. She bounced back a set down to oust the tearful American superstar who couldn’t believe that she had lost the opening round of the year’s second Grand Slam Championship at Paris.
However, it was the time when the former world number one stood up and started the campaign that witnessed a winning streak of 19 matches yielding three back-to-back titles; first one being the Wimbledon Championships at the All
England Lawn Tennis Club then the successful title defence of Bank of the West Classic at Stanford and final one being her first singles gold medal in Olympics at London.
Williams became the second women in the entire history of tennis to complete a Career Gold Grand Slam. She not only won the singles gold medal but came back later at the grass courts of London to win a doubles gold medal along
with her elder sister, Venus Williams. It was a cracking performance from the American icon, who had seen so many injury issues in the past season and couldn’t play after the end of the US Open 2011 until the start of the New Year.
Second loss came at the hands of the German superstar, Angelique Kerber, who defeated the tired American in straight sets and broke her 19 match unbeaten run at Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati. It
happened on 17th August and since then, the legendary American tennis profesional has lost just one set; bagging 12 wins that yielded two more titles of the US Open and the WTA Championships. The American powerhouse ended the 2012 WTA season with
a total of seven championship titles and holding the world number three rank.
So, the ranking system of WTA is again under the cosh that still shows Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova above Williams.
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