Sluggish Serena through to third round
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Serena Williams cleared another hurdle in her quest for a third U.S. Open title but continued her inconsistent play in a 7-5 6-2 second-round victory over Italian Maria Elena Camerin on Wednesday.
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Serena Williams struggled before finding her game Wednesday and reached the China Open quarterfinals with Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova.
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Back at Roland Garros for the first time in three years, Serena Williams was hardly in the mood for nostalgia Friday.
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Defending champion Serena Williams eases past Jarmila Gajdosova to move into the second round of the Australian Open.
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ENNIFER CAPRIATI had already dispatched Serena Williams, with a little help from the flawed human eye. Justine Henin-Hardenne was long gone, leaving a vacuum at the top of the draw.
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Defending champion Justine Henin-Hardenne scraped through to the third round of the US Open Thursday but her progress was about as smooth as rush-hour traffic in downtown Manhattan.
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Defending champion Serena Williams was dumped from the Australian Open after slumping to a 6-3, 6-4 quarter-final defeat against Serbian third seed Jelena Jankovic Tuesday.
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Serena Williams continued her inconsistent play but rolled into the third round of the U.S. Open with a 7-5 6-2 victory over Italian Maria Elena Camerin on Wednesday.
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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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A despondent Serena Williams grudgingly faced reporters after her 7-6 6-1 defeat to top seed Justine Henin in Tuesday's quarter-finals of the U.S. Open, tears staining her checks after the bitter result.
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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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Trailing by 5-2 in the first set yesterday against Daniela Hantuchova, Serena Williams received a second wind from a crowd at the U.S. Open and outlasted Hantuchova, 7-5, 6-3.
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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 reached the 19th grand slam quarter-final of her career on Sunday with a comfortable 6-2 6-3 defeat of Russian Dinara Safina.
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Defending champion Serena Williams opened her Australian Open campaign with a stuttering 6-3, 6-3 win over unseeded Australian Jarmila Gajdosova Monday.
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Top-seeded Lindsay Davenport and French Open champion Anastasia Myskina both struggled early today before advancing to the third round of the Australian Open.
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Defending champion Serena Williams slumped out of the Australian Open in a 6-3, 6-4 quarterfinal loss to third-ranked Jelena Jankovic today.