it said no, she had to make the game of their lives, and then it will probably still not be enough against the overwhelming Serena Williams? What a magnificent mistake. With a performance that would have been for two life good enough and a 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 4 victory snatched victory Angelique Kerber and trophy at the Australian Open. She enjoyed every second, even in the moments when they made mistakes, and in the end you were 15000 spectators in the arena and millions worldwide on television screens at your feet. So much dedication, so much courage, so fireworks! Only at the very end she winced, as she was called at the awards ceremony with the words on the podium: The new number two in the world rankings, the first Grand Slam singles champion this century from Germany – Angelique Kerber. The first since Steffi Graf’s triumph at Roland Garros 1999th
As the game in Melbourne started, the sun shone after a couple of rainy days, after the first sentence passed by pink clouds, and at match point lit the darkness in most To dye. The impact, as many thought, would have decisive importance. Angelique Kerber knows especially her second service is still in need of improvement, so she made up her mind, the first to take less risk in order to reduce the error rate.
At the end of their success rate at first service at 73 percent, higher than that of Williams ( 69), and the second, the American was only just beginning. The German quickly made it clear that it was prepared for strong returns, Serena Williams on the other hand saw it after a quarter of an hour as if she felt overwhelmed. She looked puzzled. Although it resembled the early break out, with Angelique Kerber had determined the key of the game, but that they already at the score of 3: bellowed 3 with all his might “come on”, the Kielerin could understand as a message: Over there is somebody, of not satisfied.
Full speed ahead played
Kerber, as it had announced it, full steam ahead, and there was during the whole two hours and nine minutes lasting game no moment of despondency. Not a single one. How often she had previously introduced with the lack of confidence in their own strength even in the concept of how often one would have liked to shout it: hang Not shoulders, not go back, you’re better than the other
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They have learned their lesson, Angelique Keber told in the days before the finals again and again that she would never again have the feeling even to stand in the way. After the frustrating experience at the WTA Finals in Singapore late October, when she dithered a great opportunity she had for days been sitting on holiday in the Maldives on the beach, and the thought of the paralyzing feeling was long did not go out of her head. Quasi at the beach, she designed the offensive plan for the new season, and in the end they could believe themselves hardly that this plan after a few weeks became a reality.
The match point in round one
With all determination and only a few seconds of doubt had they won in midweek in the quarterfinals for the first time in her career against Viktoria Asarenka; without this convincing victory everything would have been more impossible. The Belarusian had before the tournament among the favorites after their convincing Aufritt heard previously in Brisbane win against Angelique Kerber, which since kept up worth seeing in the first set, in the second but again had drawn her shoulders; in Brisbane were still missing the crucial ten percent.
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