Thursday, July 3, 2008

All William final

Serena faces Venus in Wimbledon Finals | Nadal vs Schuettler



As expected both serena and Venus williams passed throught their respective semi-finals to face in their 7th Grandslam finals. Serena has a great record over her sister in Grandslams with a 5-1 margin.

Defending champion and four-time winner Venus beat Elena Dementieva 6-1, 7-6 (3), then two-time champ Serena overcame two rain delays and served 14 aces to down China’s Zheng Jie 6-2, 7-6 (5).

It will be the first all-Williams final since 2003, when Serena beat her older sister in the championship match for the second year in a row.

"She’s a tough opponent,” Serena said. “I think she’ll be the toughest person I’ve played. I’m excited.”

Said Venus: “It’s every Williams for themself.”

In men’s play, 32-year-old Rainer Schuettler outlasted Arnaud Clement 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (7), 8-6 in a match that took two days to complete. The German saved a match point at 5-4 in the fifth set before pulling out a 5 hour, 12 minute victory that sends him into the semifinals against No. 2 Rafael Nadal.


While World no. 1 Roger Federer will face of Former world NO.1 Marat safin in another mens semifinals. They have met in the 2005 Australian open semi-finals where Federer was defeated by Safin who then went on to win the title. Safin has already dispatched World no.3 Novak Djokovic so a thrilling contest awaits us!

2 comments:

Dan* July 4, 2008 at 6:13 PM  

very useful blog for sports lovers like me :D

i hope we get to see a good fight from Venus as Serena already has beaten her several times

Cant wait to see Fed vs Safin :P

Tarun July 4, 2008 at 6:44 PM  

wow nice post thks ..!

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