Serena
Williams insists it's not as easy as it looks.
The
top-ranked woman breezed to her third Rogers Cup title Sunday with a
6-2, 6-0 victory over unseeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea. This was her
eighth WTA title of the year and the 54th of her career.
She
didn't drop a set all week and lost only 22 games, almost half that
total against third-seed Agnieszka Radwanska in a semifinal that
proved her only real test in this U.S. Open tuneup.
With
the absence of top-five players Maria Sharapova and Victoria
Azarenka, and the early exit of Wimbledon champ Marion Bartoli, all
because of injury, Williams faced few obstacles in her path to the
title.
''No
tournament is ever easy, especially being in the position I am in,''
she said. ''The tournament starts and they expect you to win. And the
tournament is like, 'You're going to be in the final and after your
semifinal I want you to do this, and you have to do this and this
press.' Who knows if I'll even make it to the semifinals? It's a lot
of pressure. It's not easy.''
Raw
power
and talent wins
every time.
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