
Last time I said, I'd write a post right after the semis, I lied. After all, I realised there's just one day between the semis and the actual final so I started thinking, does it really make sense ? No It didn't, so here we go with a new post, but with Men's update as well ! Ok anyway, there we have it, Serena Williams finally, after a long, hard tournament, with the title. Not a simple one though, her 50th title throughout her career. A lot ? I don't know, but I have to say I did expect more of these on her shelf, so I'm kinda disappointed. The final was a little weird, wasn't it ? I mean, after a hard quarter final she had against the spanish Anabel Medina Garrigues in which, I'm gonna say it again, she lost the second set by an astonishing 6:0, and the semi final versus the italian Sara Errani, which wasn't that easy either, she managed to dominate the final with Maria, which is totally supposed to be a hard one for her. I have no idea what happened, but overall it pretty much seems like there's no way the russian can cause problems to the american. It's totally enough to see the statistics, to realise how hard it is for Maria to compete with Serena. As WomensTennisBlog has shown in their last post, Sharapova didn't win against Williams since 2004 ! I find it pretty amazing. But no one should never give up on his dreams, right ?

The match between the two players ended up in two straight sets (6:1, 6:4) showing such a helplessness in Maria's play, that that was actually predictable right from the beginning. The beginning of it was just a four games in a row win for Williams, after which Sharapova somehow took her service and finally lost it by 6:1. The second one wasn't better. I mean it was, ok, but did Maria play better ? I would disagree on this one to be honest, although the beginning was pretty good. Masha managed to break Serena's service and win her, putting a 2:0 on the scoring board. And that was basically all. Well, ok, actually not as she did also win her next service and the one at 4:3 for Serena, putting a 4:4. Than It Was All. What's so surprising and you may have heard about this before, It's Serena's first red clay final sicen 2002 ! (As Huffingtonpost sais) It's perhaps even more exciting than the fact that Maria can't beat Williams since 2004.

But let's pass to Men's final, in which there wasn't that many surpsing facts, so I might be faster on writing about this one... I don't know yet. Well, the only "surpring" fact, was Stanislas Wawrinka's place in the final. Surprising put in quoted, because it's not really a surpring fact. He's a good player with a lot of success, playing a really good tennis causing problems among a lot of players since the beginning actually. But the final wasn't so big, or exciting. As the tennis tv channel I can only watch, which is Super Tennis ( An italian tv basically), did not manage to show the men's final, I don't really know exactly what happened there, I've just seen the highlights. But I can tell Rafa played good. It was his regular tennis in my opinion, which is actually always good. Wawrinka on the other hand, played a nice tennis too but obviously it wasn't good enough to beat Rafa. It's totally improving, he's getting better and better, but If he wants to win over Nadal, It must be something more, you know ? Just my little opinion, don't get mad, please. The result was very similar to the other one above (6:2, 6:4) and the match was too. Just like Serena dominated in her final, Nadal did too in his. And that's actually all what I can say about it, I'm sorry.
Ok, next event ? The great, great Internazionali BNL D'Italia, played in Rome, which unfortunately I will be missing. As I usually go there to enjoy the amazing atmosphere and tennis, I just couldn't provide myself with the tickets needed, not economic things caused it, don't worry. Anyway I will still be providing you with updates, hopefully, as the italian tennis tv channel (Super Tennis) which is the only one i can see have a full time, exclusive transmission, I'll still be able to feel like being part of it and having all the great updates and infos. So stay tuned for next posts ! Ah and no, this post was not sponsored by Super Tennis.
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