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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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