Serena Williams Advances to Wimbledon Final

Together Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova have earned more than $100 million in prize money, with the glamorous duo boosting those lofty totals through endorsements – especially the latter, who is habitually named the world’s richest female athlete.

The 21-year-old Muguruza is the first Spanish woman in 19 years to reach the Wimbledon final. Sharapova last defeated Williams at the year-end championships in 2004 and has dropped the past 14 sets.

“Just mentally it’s like, ‘Okay, I know I can do that”.

Serena Williams entered the final with a dominating 6-2 6-4 win over Maria Sharapova.

But Sharapova says she won’t resort to panic measures in her quest to overcome Williams who can achieve the “Serena Slam” of holding all four majors at the same time if she beats Garbine Muguruza in Saturday’s final. She is bidding to become the second Spanish woman to triumph at Wimbledon after Martinez in 1994.

Muguruza, Williams’ opponent in the final, has actually beaten her at a major before, in the second round of last year’s French Open. “In five minutes you can see that I’m raging?”

“Every time I step out on court, the practice court, the match court, I do look at it as a more fun time because it’s not as much stressful as it was. I was not able to do that in today’s match”.

After another defeat by Williams, Sharapova found it hard to take much solace from the fact that she had at least reached a 20th Grand Slam semi-final.

Sharapova still hadn’t shaken off the nerves on her serve and Serena made her pay in the fifth game, reading the Russian’s deliveries perfectly and punishing them with ground-strokes too deep and powerful to stop. Williams served out the match at love with the three aces and a service victor that Sharapova barely got her racket on.

She didn’t face a break point. Post shoulder surgery in 2008, the serve hasn’t been the same. If Williams beats Muguruza, she’ll own six Wimbledon titles, she’ll have completed three-fourths of a calendar slam, and she’ll hold 21 grand slam titles.

Muguruza has a promising future. Her first one was between 2002 and 2003 when she won the French Open, Wimbledon, the US Open, and then went on to take the Australian Open crown in early 2003, The Wall Street Journal reported.

“A lot more than I’m doing”, was her response.

Garbine Muguruza won the first set 6-2 but lost the second 3-6 to make it 1-1 all.

Agnieszka Radwanska is back in it. She claimed six straight games to lead 1-0 by a break in the third.

“The crowd was really for her. I had to just figure out what is it that I could do to get her from just playing unbelievable”. And she’s given me problems in the past.

One big victor of the match already is Nike Nike.

Now the 28-year-old, fresh from a 6-2 6-4 submission to Williams, has dismissed Mouratoglou labelling Azarenka as superior by suggesting that feud could never end.

Asked whether she had done so after shouts from her team at courtside, Radwanska added: “I think I did it because I’m the one to decide if I challenge or not”.

Radwanska had two break points and was pushing for a third at deuce when, seemingly urged on by those in her player box, the Pole challenged a Muguruza shot that Hawk-Eye showed to have clipped the line. She converted on her first match point with a forehand volley victor into an open court. Her day ended with two overpowering serves from Williams that Sharapova didn’t come close to returning. She sends constant words of encouragement-even if Muguruza doesn’t always believe them.