In Miami, Florida- Victoria Azerinka of Belarus, captures his first major title by beating the number one seed and the world number one player 6-3, 6-1, in the finals of the Sony Ericsson Open in the hardcourt Miami.In that final match Serena Williams was bothered by a left thigh injury and got worse as the match goes on. But despite of this defeat, Serena still assured to be the world number player in the WTA ranking in 71st week of her career. In the first set Serena tied the match at 3-3, before began to feel the pain in her thigh which was heavily bandaged which also supporting her knee. And from that point until the end of the match, she only managed to win just one game.
That injury of Serena, was felt by her in the quarter final win over Li Nan of China. Her injury made Serena difficult to to move a little bit in the left, right and moving forward was also difficult. In their previous meeting in the Australian Open Serena forced to retired Azerinka in the fourth round of the tournament due to ill.
Williams was off night on the court with five double faults on the match, with 34 unforced error and a poor 54 percent of successful in first service. Azerinka served for title match point tensed up a little bit, made her second title match point a double fault, before getting the title in the third try.
At the age of 19, Azernka captured her first major title and the third of her career which all have won in 2009 the other two was in Brisbane and Memphis. And expected in this win that Azirinka will elavate her ranking into the eight spot in the world. And here was the statement of Azerinka after she won the title in the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida.
"It was a great honour to meet Serena in the final and even greater to win against her," said Azarenka. "It's only this season that I have started to believe in myself and to believe that I can win tournaments."
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