{"id":9585,"date":"2015-01-31T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T20:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=9585"},"modified":"2018-04-21T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T01:32:26","slug":"serena-scores-slam-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/serena-scores-slam-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Scores Slam #19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Winner-WTA-Serena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9551\" alt=\"Serena Williams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Winner-WTA-Serena.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Winner-WTA-Serena.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Winner-WTA-Serena-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Winner-WTA-Serena-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Winner-WTA-Serena-500x266.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2015 Australian Open Ladies&#8217; singles final brought the No. 1 seed against the No. 2 seed. This was the 19th time Serena Williams faced Maria Sharapova. Adding today&#8217;s outcome, Williams has beaten Sharapova 16 straight times.<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams broke in the first game. After a short rain delay, the roof was closed at Rod Laver Arena. Serena then came out and won six straight points, grabbing a second break for 5-2. Sharapova got one of the breaks back, but Serena broke back to win the first set 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>In the second set, both Serena and Maria held their respective service games &#8212; no breaks of serve. Serena had an opportunity to finish the match with Maria serving at 4-5, 30-40. On the first championship point, Maria hit a forehand down-the-line winner, and held her service game.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=3537\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to discuss the Williams\/Sharapova final in the discussion forum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>It was a tightly contested tiebreak. Serena had a 6-4 lead, and Maria fought off a second championship point with a huge forehand down-the-line winner. Serena then had the match on her racquet. Serving on championship point No. 3, Serena&#8217;s first serve was called a let. She composed herself, then fired down an ace to win the match 6-3, 7-6(5). An outstanding statistic for Serena was her serve, including 18 aces.<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams made history by winning her 19th Grand Slam title, moving her into second place in the Open Era. This was also her sixth Australian Open victory.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): VOXSPORTSdotNET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Australian Open Ladies&#8217; singles final brought the No. 1 seed against the No. 2 seed. This was the 19th time Serena Williams faced Maria Sharapova. Adding today&#8217;s outcome, Williams has beaten Sharapova 16 straight times. Serena Williams broke in the first game. After a short rain delay, the roof was closed at Rod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[426,61,125],"class_list":["post-9585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-serena-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}