Kerber defeated Williams and became Wimbledon champion – Tennis – Sports

Find the validation of El Cazamentiras to the end of the news.

By:

Reuters

July 14, 2018, 3:57 AM p.m.

German tennis player Angelique Kerber surprised Saturday by crushing American star Serena Williams 6-3, 6-3 to win the Wimbledon tournament. The eleventh seed took advantage of the many mistakes made by the seven-time Wimbledon champion, becoming the first German tennis player to win the English Grand Slam title since Steffi Graf in 1996.

Williams, who was playing his fourth tournament since she gave birth last September, she was trying to match Margaret Court's record of 24 Grand Slam titles. The American was also on the verge of becoming the first tennis player to win at Wimbledon's Australian Evonne Goolagong in 1980.

The 36-year-old star, unbeaten on the All England courts Club since 2014, It seemed impossible to stop in the last two weeks and had only lost one set before reaching its tenth Wimbledon final. But he did not face a rival like Kerber, who managed to master the first set accurately because his iron defense produced too many errors on Williams' part.

The American lost three times the initial service and then tried to recover, he left opportunities until Kerber sealed the result of the game in a short time. Kerber's victory, a sort of settling of accounts after being defeated in the final by Williams in 2016, ended the Wimbledon's 20-game winning streak in the US.

REUTERS