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THE END OF WIMBLEDON DAY 2: Photos And Results
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
(L-R) Stephanie Foretz Gacon, France OUT, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France ADVANCED, Serena Williams, USA ADVANCED, James Blake, USA OUT, and Heather Watson , GBR MATCH POSTPONED
Serena Williams, USA (7) defeated Aravane Rezai, FRA
6-3, 3-6, 6-1
"I'm not a crier," said Serena Williams.
"I didn't expect to have any emotions," she said. "But it was definitely so emotional for me because, you know, throughout the last 12 months I've been through a lot of things that you guys don't even know about. It's just been a long, arduous road. To stand up still is pretty awesome.
"This was probably the most emotional I've gotten after a match. I think my first time, maybe, was when I won the US Open way back in '99. I think I got a little emotional then. But this was Centre Court; defending champion and it's Wimbledon. It doesn't get bigger than this."
"I don't think I played well," she said. "I could have done a lot of things. I had a lot of unforced errors. But it was all about going out there and doing what I could under a lot of pressure."
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, FRA (12) defeated Go Soeda, JPN
6-3, 77-64, 6-2
James Blake, USA defeated by Marcos Baghdatis, CYP (32)
4-6, 2-6, 77-65, 6-4, 4-6
Asked if he thought this loss signaled the consideration of retirement, Blake responded, "That's going to be a decision that's going to take longer than one match, and I wouldn't want to make it within an hour, two hours, or even a day of a loss, especially because your head isn't where it's supposed to be at that time."
"I've lost over the years, probably, about a couple of hundred matches, and I'd say out of 200, about 198 of them I probably thought I should retire right after those losses. But I'd come back the next day ready to play and ready to get better. I'm thinking this one will be the same."
Stephanie Foretz Gacon, FRA defeated by Andrea Petkovic, GER (11)
3-6, 4-6
Heather Watson, GBR and her Mom Michelle.
Heather Watson, GBR vs. Mathilde Johansson, FRA
Match postponed until Wednesday - Day 3
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Posted by Shelia at 12:09 AM Labels: 2011 Wimbledon Championships, Aravane Rezai, Australian Open Series James Blake, Go Soeda, Heather Watson, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Marcos Baghdatis, Serena Williams, Stephanie Foretz Gacon Email this post
Venus Upset By Unseeded Rezai
Monday, May 17, 2010
Madrid, Spain - Unseeded Aravane Rezai upset Venus Williams to claim a straight sets win the final of the Madrid Open.
Frenchwoman Rezai, 23, earned only her third career title after defeating fourth seed Williams 6-2, 7-5 in one hour and 41 minutes at La Caja Magica.
Despite the loss Williams is set to return to second place in the world rankings for the first time since 2003 following her run this week, while she also won the women's doubles title at the Madrid Open with sister Serena on Saturday night.
Rezai, who won in Bali and Strasbourg last year, swept aside Williams during a superb first set in which she broke her opponent in the third and seventh games before serving out to love to take the upper hand.
It was a convincing start by Rezai, but she needed to dig deep during the second set to stage a remarkable fightback.

However, Rezai saved all of them and, with the momentum behind her again, she broke Williams in the next game before serving out to win the match and the title.
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Posted by Shelia at 2:12 AM Labels: Aravane Rezai, Australian Open Final, La Caja Magica, Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, Venus Williams Email this post
Serena Dispatches Dushevina In Sydney
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The American world number one tossed aside Russian Vera Dushevina 6-2, 6-2, making it just seven games she has dropped on her way to the last four of the Sydney tournament.
Williams, strong favourite to lift her fifth Australian Open crown and her 12th Grand Slam, takes on world number 27 Aravane Rezai of France in Thursday's semi-finals.

Rezai won her third match of the tournament against Italian Flavia Pennetta, 6-3, 6-0 on Wednesday.
In the bottom half of the draw, Belarus sixth seed Victoria Azarenka is through to the semi-finals after beating Slovak Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 7-5, while defending champion Elena Dementieva was due to face world number two Dinara Safina later Wednesday.
"I definitely enjoy playing in the heat," Williams said of steamy Melbourne, home to the Open. "I usually enjoy playing in the heat. I live in Florida, so it's all about hot weather there.
"So I think maybe that's one of the reasons why I do so well down here.
"The past couple of times I won it's been extremely hot, so I expect the same temperatures again."
Asked during her post-match press conference how close she was to her best form, Williams said: "I always try to get there usually around the semi-finals and finals of the Grand Slams.
"I'm just doing the best that I can now to get there. Hopefully I have a long way to go, which I think is always good."
Williams said she was expecting her toughest match of the week against Rezai.
"I haven't played her, but I know her game," she said. "I played her in doubles and (sister) Venus has played her before.
"She's a good player and she's really young. She has a lot of drive. I think she can be really good. It'll definitely be my toughest match yet."
Azarenka had to again work hard to stay alive in the tournament, taking two hours 20 minutes to extinguish the challenge of the 24th-ranked Cibulkova.
So far Azarenka has been taken to three sets in all her three matches at the tournament.

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Posted by Shelia at 8:31 AM Labels: Aravane Rezai, Australian Open, Dinara Safina, Dominika Cibulkova, Elena Dementieva, Serena Williams, Sydney International, Vera Dushevina, Victoria Azarenka Email this post
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