SERENA WILLIAMS WINS STANFORD TENNIS EVENT & WINS HER 61ST TITLE

Written by: Staff on 3rd August 2014

SERENA WILLIAMS WINS STANFORD TENNIS EVENT & WINS HER 61ST TITLE

epa04340182 Serena Williams of the USA raises her trophy after defeating Angelique Kerber of Germany during their tennis match finals at the Bank of the West Classic in the Taube Family Tennis Stadium at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, 03 August 2014. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO |

BANK OF THE WEST CLASSIC – STANFORD, USA

$ 710,000.00

26 JULY – AUG 3, 2014

RESULTS – AUGUST 03, 2014

Women’s

Singles – Finals

[1] S Williams (USA) d [3] A Kerber (GER) 76(1) 63

Women’s

Doubles – Finals

[3] G Muguruza (ESP) / C Suárez Navarro (ESP) d P Kania (POL) / K Siniakova (CZE) 62 46 10-5

Final Facts

– Williams wins the 61st title of her career, 16 more than any other active player and the seventh most in history.

– Williams has now won a WTA-leading four titles in 2014; she also triumphed in Brisbane, Miami and Rome.

– Williams’s win-loss record in finals now stands at 60-17 (she won one title due to a walkover), and 39-12 in hardcourt finals.

– Williams, who also won in 2011 and 2012, extends her unbeaten streak in Stanford to 13 matches.

– Williams came from 5-1 down in the first set to win 12 of the next 16 games in the final; the only set she dropped all week was against Ivanovic in the quarterfinals.

– Williams improves to 5-1 head-to-head against Kerber, having won the last three encounters.

– Kerber falls to 3-9 in WTA finals, and 3-6 on hardcourts.

– Williams will remain at No.1, while Kerber will rise to No.7 in the new rankings; it will be Williams’s 200th non-consecutive week at No.1.

– Muguruza and Suárez Navarro win their first WTA title together; Muguruza now has three titles, while Suárez Navarro has one.

Final Quotes

Serena Williams: “When I was down 5-1, I was just thinking I had to take it one point at a time. I knew I just had to relax and not be so crazy. Up until that point I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do, and what I had been doing in practice, so I knew I just had to start doing the right things. I feel like I’m on the right track again. I feel like I can play even better – I wasn’t serving my best, and I wasn’t making as many winners off the return as I wanted to, but I’m getting there.”

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Topics: Angelique Kerber, Serena Williams, Stanford, Tennis, Tennis News, Wta

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August 3, 2014 at 7:43 pm

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