Serena bemoans shot selection against Kerber

This left Williams to lament the concession of her first set in this year’s championships.

“But you must believe that you can do it. I learned that in these two weeks”. “I’m really honoured to be in this final and to win it – my dream came true tonight”.

The 34-year-old Williams was reminded at one news conference that when she played Graf in 1999, she referred to her as “Miss Graf”, out of respect.

Those errors and a lack of timing on several potential winners enabled the German to break again in the seventh game and then seal the first set in 39 minutes when Williams made another unforced error.

Around the time of Indian Wells, Kerber took a trip to Las Vegas, where Graf lives with her husband, four-time Australian Open champion Andre Agassi.

Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber feels proud after she pulled off a shock victory against Serena Williams to win her first major title.

An errant Williams was hitting too many errors and Kerber held serve comfortably to apply more pressure.

“This is probably the best slam I’ve played in a year”, she said, as reported by BBC.

Serena Williams is on the verge of winning another Australian Open Trophy, one that would allow her to tie Steffi Graf for the lead.

“I think I’m playing better”. Kerber’s shotmaking was good, but in the end, Williams handed Kerber a ton of points. You know, would I give myself an A?

The 28-year-old German then played superb defensive tennis against the powerful Williams, scrambling to force her to play an extra shot that ultimately contributed to 23 unforced errors from the American in the first set.

In a video, the American star calls for Warrnambool to continue cheering for her as she vies for her 22nd grand slam title.

But Kerber, who saved a match point in her first-round clash with Japan’s Misaki Doi, entered her first major final with huge confidence to walk away with her maiden Slam and becomes the new world No 2 from Monday. “As much as I would like to be a robot, I’m not”.

The left-hander, whose win will see her move up from world number six to two, has had an emphasis on consistency in Melbourne, patiently building control of the point as rallies develop. “She broke Williams’s serve twice in the set”. She told me after that she’s really happy for me and that I really deserved it. So, yeah, you saw that she is really, really a great person. She was playing in her first ever Grand Slam final after losing her previous three major semifinal matchups.

“After Steffi, now somebody won a grand slam!” I must change something what she was not expecting.