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WIMBLEDON, England – When Serena Williams retired from the French Open last month with a pectoral injury before her fourth round match with Maria Sharapova, Williams' coach Patrick Mouratoglou, did not waste time.
OK, "he says defiantly." She's going to win Wimbledon. "
A little over a month later, Williams is two-shot to do just that, two games away. to match Margaret Court 's record of 24 Grand Slam titles
about Williams' health, fitness, and state of mind when she arrived at the All England Club, but she scattered them in turn and served by big serve.
There were a lot of these in her 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 quarter-final win Tuesday on Camila Giorgi, a non-Italian sown with sufficient strength on its own
Giorgi, embracing the initiative and the risks, even managed to win the first set.While Williams was undoubtedly under duress, she did not never seemed overworked and drained the suspense out of the game by winning his last three games of love service.
"It's weird, perf I'm feeling, 'Man, I'm having trouble' "Williams said." For some reason, today I was so calm. Even when I was in the first set, I thought, "Well, she plays very well, I do a lot of good things, that's what it is." "
With a big goal in sight, Williams has already cracked up against an Italian veteran, losing to Roberta Vinci in the semifinals of the US Open 2015 while Williams was to two victories After completing the first Grand Slam in 27 years
.But both are former Grand Slam champions.Kerber won two majors in 2016 and also lost in the Wimbledon final at Williams this year.Oostapenko won the French Open last year swaying for the lines without a hint of self-doubt. Although she quickly went to bed when she defended her title in Paris this year, losing in the first round, Ostapenko played as if she had another point to prove at Wimbledon, scolding five opponents without losing a set.
The score – 6-3, 7-5 – gave little indication of the levels of suspense and fun that Kerber and the 14th seeded Kasatkina combined to produce. The second set included almost all the plans of the book, including one that may not have been in the book up to now: a Kasatkina winner who jumped back, but Kasatkina, a Russian 21-year-old who has an escape season, has so many tennis tools. The Central Court crowd, some of whom had never seen him play, expressed his appreciation several times by staging his collection of spins and rhythm changes
Mouratoglou was surely delighted, although he could not confirm that on Tuesday because he agreed with Williams not to to speak publicly about her during this tournament, and did not mince words in Paris, criticizing her decision to play in doubles and singles as this made her vulnerable to injury and complained that she had left out of the loop.
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