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Serena will struggle to repeat feats of 2015
Posted On Jan 14 2016
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Williams, who is chasing her seventh Australian crown and 22nd Grand Slam title after beating Sharapova in last year’s final, will have a testing start against Italian Camila Giorgi, the highest ranked non-seeded player in the women’s draw.
“She’d get it when she got mad in the second set”.
Serena Williams of the US in action during her women’s singles match between the United States of America and Australia Gold in session 6 of the Hopman Cup tennis tournament at the Perth Arena in Perth, Australia, 05 January 2016.
Multiple grand slam champion Maria Sharapova has declared herself fully fit and ready for next week’s Australian Open after having her preparations hampered by a forearm injury.
It was the resurgent Belarusian’s first piece of WTA silverware in two-and-a-half years and sent her soaring up the world rankings to 16, a timely confidence boost. Serena even more so because she’s been doing it for a long time.
“It can’t happen again like that”. She won consecutive Australian Open titles from 1997 to 1999, respectively, against Mary Pierce, Amelie Mauresmo, and Conchita Martínez, becoming one of the most shining stars in Melbourne, becoming of the most important players in this tournament! “I think she’s in a similar situation like Novak Djokovic, where if they’re both very healthy, it’s going to be tough for many, many players to win against them”.
The other big nameHe’s aged 34, ranked outside the top 300 and has played just a sprinkling of matches since his last Melbourne Park appearance – and yet no man will attract more attention than Lleyton Hewitt as he enters his 20th and final Australian Open. She definitely previous year played really well, but kept bumping into Serena.
She had a taste of that on Wednesday hitting balls in 40-degree conditions with some junior players as part of a Evian water sponsor promotion. “So let’s go there in Melbourne to see if I can be there”, she added.
“She’s got to be one of the two or three favourites for winning the Australian Open”.
