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No knock to
Peyton Manning
,
who tossed seven touchdowns
in his season opener on Monday night time, but there’s a certain somebody that’s dominating their sport higher than some other athlete on the planet right now.
That particular person is Serena Williams, all 31 years of her, who will not be only within the finals at the U.S. Open, but in the finals on such a pleasing stroll that you just’d assume she was warming up for an exhibition match and not going for her seventeenth Grand Slam title on Sunday towards Victoria Azarenka.
Williams bought there by dropping just 16 games the entire tournament, successful more sets at love than she has 6-3. She hasn’t simply been dominant, she’s been at a stage that not only has her the heavy favorite on Sunday in opposition to Azarenka, a player she holds a 12-3 report towards, but a favorite to win the factor in straight sets.
The highway Williams has had to the ultimate isn’t precisely a simple one by the rankings, however every match has appeared to virtually get simpler for the defending champion. After working into Sloane Stephens in the fourth spherical, it was all bagels against Carla Suarez Navarro and 6-0, 6-3 in opposition to Li Na on Friday.
It’s been an fascinating year for Williams, who opened with an early exit on the Australian Open adopted by a win in Paris and then a shocking loss in the fourth round at Wimbledon.
At 31 (turning 32 at the end of this month), most tennis players are on a spiraling return to mortality, but for Serena it has been one of her better years and a win on Sunday can be the sixth time she was capable of win two Grand Slams in the same season (she’s won three Slams in the same season solely once, again in ’02).
The longevity of her career will probably be something we’ll marvel at when she lastly steps away considering she first gained this event back in 1999 and has a chance to repeat in ’12 and ’13 and she or he’s been doing all this whereas partnering with sister Venus within the doubles, making it to the semifinals the place they are going to play their match on Friday night.
It’s simply been an incredible two weeks for Serena, who has found a level of tennis after 30 that rivals something she’s ever delivered to the courtroom, and unlike plenty of players that begin to slip once they get out of their 20s, Williams appears to be like like she has just a few years left to not solely contend in Grand Slams, but win them in bunches.
Serena Williams is playing at a different level right now at the U.S. Open
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