Pity. The Williams comeback was one of the highlights of the WTA tournament, but at the end of the day none of them got to the semis.
Venus had a remarkable path with some prestigious victories over Kvitova and Ivanovic, but she won the last three matches in 3 sets and this took a toll on her body. We have to keep in mind that Venus was coming back from the autoimmune disease Sjogren’s Syndrome.
You could see that something was wrong in the first 7 points of the match whe the America lost all of them!. Then Venus managed to regroup to give a match to the fans to fall 6-4 in the first set and to have a complete meltdown in the second (6-1).
Both player were quite ineffective on their serve. Venus in particular managed to win only 16% points on her second serve (not good…).
“If I’m not feeling my best, then it becomes mental and I have to fight,” Williams said. “You have to fight and fight and fight. Today I just I didn’t conquer it mentally. I have to be there mentally more than the next player.”
“I woke up in a coma today,” Williams said with a laugh.
“After a while you start to feel like maybe everything’s behind you,” she said. “I definitely learned, maybe if you’re doing something right, don’t change it.”
But you can’t definately discount Radwanska. Venus fell also and especially because on the other side of the court there was a very solid tennis player whose tennis is actually one of the best on the WTA circuit.
Radwanska was reallly pleased by her performance and she stressed the fact that even if Venus is 130 places behind in the ranking… well… she is pretty strong.
“Of course she’s not No. 134 in the world,” Radwanska said about Williams. “She’s for sure a top-five player.She’s grand champion. Doesn’t matter the ranking, actually, this week.”
Agnieszka will play the semis against a possibly tired Azarenka (after her incredible victory over Cibulkova) or Bartoli. Another epic against her friend Vika? Not 100% sure about it. Ask the question to Marion!
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