Serena Williams Reaches 4th Round Without Dropping A Set

By JOHN PYE, AP Sports Writer, San Antonio Express-News: World
Sat, 01/21/2017 - 12:09am

Williams has been playing on the Australian Open center court since 1998, and has won six of her 22 Grand Slam titles there, so it's a little wonder she's precise. Williams started the tournament with difficult assignments in the first two rounds, but also got through those — against Belinda Bencic, with a career-high ranking of 7, and Lucie Safarova, a French Open finalist in 2015. The 19-year gap in between match wins at a Grand Slam tournament broke the record set by Kimiko Date-Krumm, who went 17 years between match wins at Wimbledon. Lucic-Baroni reached the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1999 as a 17-year-old and captured the Australian Open doubles title a year before that with Martina Hingis. By saving five match points before rallying to beat Heather Watson in the second round, Brady effectively doubled her number of career wins.

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