Serena Williams reached the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells after defeating Timea Bacsinszky in the last eight. The match ended 7-5 6-3, extending Serena's winning streak to 15 matches. It is a special moment for Williams, who is playing at Indian Wells after a 14-year boycott of the event.
"I'm just happy I was able to get through and still be alive in this tournament when I haven't clearly been the Serena that we all know," Williams said after the match. Bacsinszky was on her own 15-match winning streak, but she still leads this year's WTA statistics with 21 wins and 3 losses.
"The only thing is I know can I play a lot better. I really take a lot of solace in that," Williams added. "Even if I don't win this event, I know I can play a tremendous amount better than what I have been playing." Williams will face world number 3 Simona Halep in the semi finals after the Romanian fought back to beat Carla Suarez Navarro 5-7 6-1 6-1. Halep is the most recent player to defeat Williams, that happened at last season's closing event, the WTA Finals in Singapore.
Here are the odds for Saturday's semi final at Bet365:
Serena Williams win - 4/11 Simona Halep win - 9/4
sharpe
9 years ago
Serena Williams dominated the last decade and even more in the woman's tennis but that's pretty normal. She's just the strongest both mentally and physically. But I don't like her at all, she's a little too malicious for my taste and I've always enjoying when somebody beat her on the court although that happened very rarely.
Serena Williams dominated the last decade and even more in the woman's tennis but that's pretty normal. She's just the strongest both mentally and physically. But I don't like her at all, she's a little too malicious for my taste and I've always enjoying when somebody beat her on the court although that happened very rarely.
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seculla
9 years ago
There is no tennis player in WTA that can compete with Serena Williams lately. I'm not saying that no one can beat her, but for some one to do so must give 200% from him and also Serena should have a very bad day. I think that there is no question if she will win the Indian Wells. For me it's very good to watch her playing,...
There is no tennis player in WTA that can compete with Serena Williams lately. I'm not saying that no one can beat her, but for some one to do so must give 200% from him and also Serena should have a very bad day. I think that there is no question if she will win the Indian Wells. For me it's very good to watch her playing, she is so powerful that sometimes I think that she can beat even some tennis players from ATP. :D
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timidi 9 years ago
Serena Williams is the best on WTA tour and here she have big motive and I think that she will win this tournament. She didn't play here for a long time and now when she is finally back she want to show how great she is and what was missing this tournament whike she didn't played here.
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