Canada's Eugenie Bouchard dropped just three games in a memorable win over world number one Serena Williams at the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia. Bouchard, who is currently the world number six, won 6-2 6-1 in just 50 minutes of play. Vasek Pospisil beat John Isner 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to give Canada a 2-0 lead over the US team.
"I don't know what's wrong with me, I'm so tired," Williams said after the match. "It's weird. I can't get my body to move. I feel like I've got no energy. It's a little frustrating because I know I can play two thousand times better. I've been trying to rest up. I did a little gym work, but I just felt depleted. I don't know why. I don't know how to describe it. I've just got to get my feet moving. I have to figure it out. Hopefully I can do better in the next match."
World number two Maria Sharapova seems in much better shape as she kicked off her 2015 campaign with a comfortable 6-0 6-1 win over Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova in Brisbane. "It certainly felt good to start, after not playing a match for a couple of months," said Sharapova. "Despite all the training, it's such a different feeling to go out on the court and play in front of a crowd."
Serena Williams is 15/8 at Bet365 to win the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open, while Maria Sharapova is 7/1 to win it.
timidi 9 years ago
I just saw the odds for winning Australin open and I can believe that is 15/8 on serena. It is too many matches and in every match she can feel bad, or don't have lucky and she can easy lose before even semi or quoter finals. I think that I will try with Maria Sharapova because odd is good, or ask bookie to give me odd...
I just saw the odds for winning Australin open and I can believe that is 15/8 on serena. It is too many matches and in every match she can feel bad, or don't have lucky and she can easy lose before even semi or quoter finals. I think that I will try with Maria Sharapova because odd is good, or ask bookie to give me odd for serena not to win, if odd for serena to win australian open is 15/8 I can hope similar odd to not to win :)
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cris1285 9 years ago
Bouchard is good but Halep is better in my opinion. Bouchard is too young and too beautiful, and im afraid these things to be famous, reach, popular can lead her on the wrong way. Just remind me to Kurnikova, even she had less talent. Two days ago Serena lost the first set against Pennetta (0-6), than she asked for an...
Bouchard is good but Halep is better in my opinion. Bouchard is too young and too beautiful, and im afraid these things to be famous, reach, popular can lead her on the wrong way. Just remind me to Kurnikova, even she had less talent. Two days ago Serena lost the first set against Pennetta (0-6), than she asked for an espresso :D She came back, and won the final set 6-0 :D The scoreboard says she didnt take a coffee against the canadian :D
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VlahovicNovo
9 years ago
Eugenie is future no1 i think.She had very poor match in first round against Safarova and now she beat the beast Williams.So sweet she is and with very good forhend and double bekhend.On 1st Grand Slam this year Australian open she can go so lond my opinion.
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sharpe
9 years ago
This is a great win for Eugenie Bouchard who is very young and talented tennis player. Most surprising thing is not the loss but the way it happened and the final result. Serena said that she was very tired during the game but nevertheless Bouchard deserves a lot of credit for hers great performance.I think she will be...
This is a great win for Eugenie Bouchard who is very young and talented tennis player. Most surprising thing is not the loss but the way it happened and the final result. Serena said that she was very tired during the game but nevertheless Bouchard deserves a lot of credit for hers great performance.I think she will be one of the biggest stars for the future in WTA.
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