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Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber after the women's final of 2016 at Wimbledon. (Glyn Kirk / AFP / Getty Images)
Wimbledon Women's Singles Final
Who: Serena Williams to face No. 11 seed Angelique Kerber with Williams in pursuit of Margaret's 24-major record Short. Williams, seven-time winner at Wimbledon, would equal Court's record if she could dominate Kerber in a rematch of the 2016 Wimbledon final. (She's 23-6 in the Grand Slam final.) Kerber, 30, old No. 1 worldwide, won two Grand Slam titles in 2016.
Williams, 36, won her last Grand Slam title in the 2017 Australian Open for about eight weeks of pregnancy. She missed the next four majors, came back to the French Open this spring, but had to abandon this event due to a pectoral injury before a round match of 16 scheduled. It was his first withdrawal from the singles competition at a major tournament.
When: The women's final was scheduled for Saturday at 9am, but this time could be postponed to the end of the second men's semifinal. This match of Novak Djokovic-Rafael Nadal, which Djokovic leads two sets to one, will resume at 8 am, facing South African Kevin Anderson in the men's final on Sunday. The women's final on Saturday will start after the end of the men's match.
[Exceeding even her own expectations, Serena Williams rolls into Wimbledon final]
How to watch on TV: ESPN will broadcast the women's final. Chris Fowler will have the play-by-play, and Chris Evert will be the badyst. The match is also scheduled to resume on ABC at 15 hours. East, and on ESPNEWS at 12:30 Sunday
How to broadcast: You can watch the cover of the women's final on the Wimbledon channel or on the WatchESPN app.
Wimbledon Clues: Williams plays his 18th main match at Wimbledon, and has now reached an amazing 10 finals. She won the women's singles titles in 2015 and 2016 – her previous two participations – and has now won 20 straight matches, matching the longest stretch of her career. This last period took place from 2002 to 2004, when Williams won consecutive titles before losing to the finals in 2004. Kerber, from Germany, is at his 11th edition of Wimbledon, but has advanced to the semi-finals for the third time this year. Like Williams, she lost only one set in this year's tournament
The 2016 Final: Williams found the story of his last encounter with Kerber at Wimbledon, equaling the record of 22 Grand Slam titles of Steffi Graf 7-5, 6-3 win. Chuck Post Culpepper chronicled his dominance in this match:
Through a high-quality match with lively rallies that drew audience gasps, his service continued to bring her on the rocks. She faced only one break point – the only one she faced in the last three rounds – in the seventh game of the second set. She eliminated him with a 117 mph ace at the doubles line. She decimated 13 aces at Kerber's zero. The unreturned services were 27 to 12.
"I'm trying everything," Kerber said. . .
[In the final game, Williams] placed and blew three first services – 94 mph, 114, 101 – on which the ball only ticked Kerber's racket. At age 40, she produced a volley of volley and a forehand volley (part of her 16-4 advantage in points) that dropped her into the grbad before joining Kerber in a long respectful hug.
Williams in the final of the Australian Open 2016.
The story line: If the pursuit of a 24th Grand Slam title and the eighth Wimbledon crown is not enough, Williams also has a difficult but remarkable return. there is a year. As Liz Clarke detailed of The Post this week, the past year included "a recurrence of blood clots threatening her emergency Caesarean section", an extended bed rest during which she could barely walk , then a return to the competition.
Due to her absence, she is now ranked 181st in the world, making her "the lowest ranked woman of the Open era to reach a semifinal at Wimbledon," according to the tournament. She did not receive any seed at the Open de France, which sparked a debate about how tournaments should handle maternity leave for the best players. Wimbledon awarded Williams the 25th seed. The final will be just his 14th game of 2018.
Read more The Post's Wimbledon cover:
At Wimbledon, imperishable memories are made before the start of the final match
There is also the grace of the runs to Wimbledon. Nadal, del Potro and Federer prove it.
Kevin Anderson confronts John Isner in the grueling semifinal at Wimbledon
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