Who can stop Serena Williams?
By Gabriela Didcov
There was a deserved standing ovation on Centre Court for both women as Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova 7-6, 6-4 in a fourth round contest in which they hammered the ball at each other for an hour and 36 minutes.
Serena, the defending champion and the harder hitter, came out on top but Sharapova had her chances in the first set tie-break, missing three set points before Williams took it by 11 points to nine. Thereafter, though, it was an inexorable march towards victory by Serena as she pounded down a match total of 19 aces and proved, if proof is needed, that on this surface and in this form, she is the best in the world, with the possible exception of her sister, Venus.
Sharapova was intent on matching Serena blow for blow, ace for ace, winner for winner. But the truth is that nobody in women's tennis is capable of that and when Serena is in the groove, as she was today, she is virtually unstoppable.
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