Serena edges out Safina
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Beijing - Top seed Serena Williams advanced to the China Open quarter-finals on Wednesday, edging past Russia&#39;s Dinara Safina for a thrilling 6-4 3-6 6-3 win.
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Hardly at her best, barely beating one of the tour's pesky teens, Serena Williams suddenly found herself face-down at the U.S. Open. Running for a ball she couldn't reach, the six-time Grand Slam champion slipped and planted both palms on court to brace herself. Williams shook the sting out of her hands, beckoned a ball boy to retrieve her fallen racket, then took her sweet time before facing break point. Recomposed, Williams smacked a service winner at 111 mph, an ace just as fast, and forced an error. Just like that, she held serve en route to beating 30th-seeded Tatiana Golovin 7-5, 6-4 Friday night to reach the Open's fourth round.
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Former champion Serena Williams  fought back from the brink of defeat to oust fourth seed Maria  Sharapova 2-6, 7-5, 8-6 Thursday and reach the Australian Open  final.
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Top-seeded Serena Williams of the United States rallied in the final set Wednesday to beat Dinara Safina and reach the quarterfinals of the China Open.
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Serena Williams and Ahsha Rolle won second-round matches last night at the United States Open, separated by a few hundred yards that might as well have been a million miles.
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MELBOURNE - The difference in 12 months was easy to see. Serena Williams, wearing fuchsia bicycle shorts and headband, a short white dress, and dangling, chandelier-inspired earrings, found her form quickly and beat Jarmila Gajdosova, 6-3, 6-3, today in the first match in the Australian Open.
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Serena Williams joined her Wimbledon conqueror Maria Sharapova in the quarterfinals of the China Open with a hard-earned 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 win over Russian Dinara Safin.
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Russian Dinara &quot;Little Sis&quot; Safina led 3-1 over the former No. 1 American Wednesday before Williams found her rhythm to string together five consecutive games to survive her debut at the WTA stop in Beijing.
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Dinara Safina will find herself in the firing line when she faces Serena Williams in the fourth round of the French Open on Sunday.
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Third seed Serena Williams served up  her best performance of the U.S. Open to date as she beat  Switzerland's Patty Schnyder 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday to reach the  quarter-finals.
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Hobbled and hurting and essentially playing on one leg, Serena Williams managed to gut out a three-set victory at Wimbledon on Monday against an opponent who helped by fading right along with the daylight.
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Serena Williams rolls into the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open after eliminating Patty Schnyder 6-4, 6-2, on Sunday while Andy Roddick prevails in three sets.
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Jelena Jankovic  beats defending champion Serena Williams to reach the Australian Open semi-finals.
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Champion Serena Williams withstood a tough fourth-round challenge from Nicole Vaidisova to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday.
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Serena Williams saved three match points and beat Maria Sharapova 2-6, 7-5, 8-6 Thursday to advance to the women's final at the Australian Open.
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NEW YORK - Serena Williams served notice that her shaky knee is holding up just fine, sweeping past Patty Schnyder 6-4, 6-2 Sunday to reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open...
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NEW YORK - Third seed Serena Williams served up her best performance of the US Open to date as she beat Switzerlandâs Patty Schnyder 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday to reach the quarterfinals.