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| Williams coming second in a grand slam final is rare: Her record in major finals stands at 21-4. |
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- many players have not beaten Serena Williams in a grand slam, but lately it's happened
- that belief is an important step, players say, trying to defeat the 21-time grand slam winner
(CNN) with his performance in the last 12 months you might think that Serena Williams has never lost a match in a grand slam.
Its imposing game, will power and a hunger for American especially difficult to stop the four major tennis tournaments, as evidenced in a winning percentage of 88% at grand slams and 85% in all the other main top-level meetings.
"When she is in the events where becomes a reality", long-pro Samantha Stosur said to CNN
Williams, in fact, has come out of one of the main 39 times without lifting the trophy, but defeats have been distributed in 17 years and has not occurred since Wimbledon in 2014, when Alize Cornet sent his packaging.
Well then, how does a player oust Williams in this US Open, which starts Monday in New York, and avoid the man, 33 years to become the first player since Steffi Graf in 1988 to complete the calendar year grand slam?
Produce the proverbial "match of his life" and benefiting from a seedy Williams, either physically or otherwise, is a combination.
Stosur, who holds the distinction of being the last player to Williams in the final of a grand slam and the last player in his defeat in the US Open, in 2011, said having the required amount of belief is the key.
To Williams, and overcome their aura, in Sydney in the year 2009 proved to be an overwhelming proposition for the Aussie. With four match points, she double faulted twice and admitted in a jerky manner. Williams has prevailed 7-5 in the third set.
"I was very nervous," Stosur. "I thought, 'Oh, my God, I am going to Serena Williams, in Sydney. It's amazing." Then I missed a volley by five meters and suddenly it was all over. Without doubt, this was a big lesson, that if you have the opportunity, that he has to play the point and try not to think about the people who are on the other end. "
No doubt, when they met six months later at Stanford, Stosur won in a third set. A year later Stosur, who has a powerful shot and heavy forehand, filo Williams in a thriller at the French Open.
The 31 years of age is one of only three players, along with fellow grand slam champions Jennifer Capriati and Justine Henin, to a record of victories against Williams in grand slam with at least two head-to-head.
"I have to do a couple of things, especially the couple against her, which have worked well in the past", the 22 th of Stosur, who has lost eight of 11 matches against Williams in general, she said. "If I can do it, I know that I can of it. And if I do not run the or not well enough, I know that she has so many weapons worries me and, therefore, could be a very different story."
The only occasion in 60 parties Williams came out in the first round of a great wine three years ago at the French Open, undone by: rarely is -- the lack of killer instinct and an inspired opponent, Virginie Razzano, fending in front of his fans in a predictable partisan environment.
As Stosur, Razzano thought he could beat Williams. Step one.
Help the things, in your case, I was consulting YouTube in the days prior to the fight of Williams study habits.
"I have to admit that I had not slept well for three days prior to the party because i was so disturbed that play, because I really wanted to beyond the first round," said CNN Razzano "I said in my head, "psychologically i have to be ready to hit it.' "
Serena is a great champion and very difficult to beat. I could not go to court with the eyes closed, without a clue."
dropping the first set has not done enough to discourage Razzano, he said. She remained faithful to their tactics and not to shy away from the match in a physical meeting, that is what finally happened.
Williams was handed a 5-1 in the second set tears, weeping in the chair in front of the final game and I saw how Razzano closed bid
"I felt as if I were in a football stadium," recalled Razzano, that a year before he played in the French Open shortly after the death of her boyfriend. The fact that the fans trampled their feet and clapped their hands at the same time. I TOLD MYSELF center court was going to explode. I felt the vibrations."
The result, however, transform Williams: She became coach Patrick Mouratoglou and has won eight of the 13 grand slams disputed.
But thanks to Razzano, which fell in qualifying US Open after losing three months with a stomach injury, has not been in Williams immediate plans.
"I think that after the loss was bitter," said that the 32 years of age. "I've seen a month later, at Wimbledon and was crossed on your way into the locker room and she looked at me with dark eyes."
Henin overthrown Williams in the majors only three times in 2007. Beyond possessing the belief, Williams said opponents cannot afford a dip. The ability to play on the defensive and the adoption of the first opportunities in a rally to pressurize Williams, Henin, are important.
"But (what's) very hard against her is that, even if she is not playing at their best, when she is under pressure to which you can, especially in his service, do a fantastic job," he said to the press Henin in the Rogers Cup in Toronto earlier this month.
She was in the final Australian Open 2010, reliving the fundamental importance of the second game of the third set.
Henin leader with 1-0 and holding two break points at 15-40, Williams escaped thanks to your service, without a doubt the best game of the women you've ever seen. I hit an ace, two good first deliveries and an ace.
She was going to win the final 6-6-2.
"Only you can do it," the seven-time grand slam winner. "Mentally she is the stronger than i had to play. Perhaps even better today than a few years ago. It's amazing."
Cornet and Sabine' Lisicki, Williams who defeated at Wimbledon in 2013, did not return requests for interviews send by e-mail, while another competitor that has recently fallen Williams in one of the main, with Muguruza, is not available, said his agent. Muguruza stunned Williams at the French Open the year but lost their revenge in the month of July the Wimbledon final.
Henin does not expect Williams to lose in the U.S. Open, saying that "probably is going to do the grand slam this year" and, therefore, it also coincides with Graf's record of 22 races of the Open Era.
There is nothing to suggest Henin has been wrong. But even if in the current environment is difficult to predict Williams seemed to have passed in New York, Razzano, Stosur and belgian she, among others, have shown that it is not an impossible task.
surce: Edition.cnn.com
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