[ad_1]
Sharapova moved to tears Harriet Dart, 22, with a devastating 6-0 6-0 victory over the British in the first round, and on Saturday, 18-year-old Dayana Yastremska also seemed upset after a 6-2 6-1 defeat at Williams in the third round in Melbourne.
Williams, mother of her one-year-old daughter, Alexis Olympia, also played for the Ukrainians when they approached to shake hands after the 67-minute match that took place at Rod Laver Arena.
Yastremska, 37, told a tearful tearful, "You're amazing, you're so young, you're going to make me cry" before they get hugged.
Williams later said during her post-game press conference to see her adversary in distress "break my heart" and she remembered to have been in Yastremska's place after losing to his older sister Venus in the 2000 Wimbledon semifinal.
"I was heading for the net, I started screaming," Williams said. "I could not stop myself, girls, young women, just want to go out and do their best and want to win."
She is not the only opponent that Williams needs to console this fortnight: Tatjana Maria, neighbor of Williams in South Florida, cried after a 6-0 6-2 defeat on Tuesday.
Nine games only
Williams has dropped nine games in three rounds – her lowest ever record since the 2013 US Open – but is likely to be more resilient by the end of the course.
Nineteen years after this duel at Wimbledon, Venus – what Serena has repeated many times as her most formidable opponent – will organize the 31st meeting between her brothers and sisters if she upset the world's first, Simona Halep.
Whatever the result, it will be a blockbuster.
"Honestly, I would love to face the world's No. 1," Williams said. "At the same time, I would very much like Venus to win.I think that anyway, whatever, I will be ready for one or the other of the opponents.
"Yeah, it's going to be great, I have not played at world No. 1 since I came back, I do not think so," Serena added seriously. "So, yeah, it'll be good."
A little further, potentially, are the players who defeated Williams at the Grand Slam tournaments, Garbine Muguruza, Karolina Pliskova and Naomi Osaka.
A clash between Osaka and the Williams would spark a lot of excitement considering their eventful final at the US Open, but the Japanese were almost upset earlier Saturday by the talented Hsieh Su-Wei, 28th seeded .
Change of pace and direction, using shots on goal and with a magnificent disguise on the ground, Hsieh surprised Halep and Muguruza during the grand slam of last year.
When she led by a set and 4-1, and even 4-2, 40-0 in service, another huge scalp was on the way. Osaka had previously shown his frustration by throwing his racket on the ground to get a warning and falling on the ground to try to counter the unpredictable shots of Hsieh.
Osaka however won 5-7 6-4 6-1.
"Happy from the way I fought"
"I'm happy with the way I fought," she told reporters. "For me, it's one of the most important things I always thought I could improve, because it was a bit like accepting defeat in a certain way, and then this time, I just wanted to learn of the last game I played, Brisbane, "she added, citing a two-run loss to Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko.
The men's favorite, Novak Djokovic, in search of a seventh Australian Open record, lost his first set of the tournament but defeated Canada's Denis Shapovalov, "Next Gen", 6-3 6-4 4-6 6-0. This despite being agitated when the lights were turned on in the early evening and receive a time violation warning in the third set.
Source link
