By Craig Gabriel MIAMI: Serena Williams has created a record at the Sony Open Tennis; she has now won the title for the sixth time separating herself from Stephanie Graf who she jointly held the record with. The world number one defeated long-time rival Maria Sharapova in two hours eight minutes in what was a stunning fight back and a
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By Craig Gabriel MIAMI: Serena Williams does not have the term “give up” in her brain. It is not surprising seeing that she has had to fight and work hard for everything on her life whether it be on the court or off the court. Furthermore, she is a champion and the number one ranked player in the world, and
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By Craig Gabriel MIAMI: It is no secret that Serena Williams is intense on court. She wants to win every point she plays and as good and as awesome as a 6-0, 6-1 score line might be, the only absolute perfect score is winning every single point of a match and ending 6-0, 6-0. To see something like happen is
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By Craig Gabriel What more can be said about Serena Williams? The lady is just amazing. Serena has created tennis history by becoming the oldest woman player to be ranked No.1 in the world. Her comeback win over Petra Kvitova 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in Doha to reach the semifinals tipped her over the edge with enough ranking points to secure
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By Craig Gabriel MELBOURNE, Australia: Serena Williams has struggled with pain and discomfort but still tried to give it all she had at the Australian Open. In the quarterfinals against Sloane Stephens, Serena had the early advantage but midway through the second set she chased down a short ball and almost immediately clutched her lower back. Serena needed the trainer
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By Craig Gabriel MELBOURNE, Australia: Sensational Serena made her way across the court at Rod Laver Arena and never gave Maria Kirilenko any chance, securing a place in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time since 2010, when she last won the title, and for the eighth time overall. It took Serena 57 minutes to record the
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By Craig Gabriel MELBOURNE, Australia: The Australian Open has reached the half-way mark and Serena Williams takes her focus into the home stretch in an effort to try and win a sixth championship, something no other woman has achieved in the Open-era (since 1968) of tennis. Wearing a jacket by Nike in a smoky brown colour with orange trim, the
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Serena has reached the last 16 of the Australian Open with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Ayumi Morita of Japan.
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By Craig Gabriel MELBOURNE, Australia: When Serena Williams played her first match at the Australian Open this year there was some great concern for her because she rolled her right ankle and she said she was close to panicking as the injury was attended to. She ended up winning that match without the loss of a game but even later
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By Craig Gabriel MELBOURNE, Australia: Serena Williams doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone but in her first round of the Australian Open she showed yet again how good a tennis player she is and what an amazing athlete she is. It took her just 55 minutes to sweep into the second round of the Australian Open with a 6-0,
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Serena Williams says she “feels invigorated”. In that case the other players need to be on the lookout. The year just gone, 2012, was a phenomenal year for Serena Williams. Every major tennis observer named her as the “Player of the Year”. What she achieved in 2012 was truly remarkable as she won her 14th and 15th career Grand Slam
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ISTANBUL, Turkey – With a barrage of winners from every part of her game – from the serve and off the return, off the ground and at the net, a whopping 40 in all – Serena Williams overpowered Maria Sharapova to complete a dream season at the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships – Istanbul 2012.
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There’s video that exists of Venus and Serena Williams playing tennis when they were kids — 8 and 7, respectively — in the late ’80s, on unshaded but otherwise decent-looking public courts in California. This is not one of the clips you’ve maybe seen, taken from various news segments, but an earlier, stranger video, made by their father and longtime
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