The 36-year-old, unbeaten at the All England Club since 2014, had begun to look unstoppable during the fortnight and had dropped only one set in reaching her 10th Wimbledon final. She had not faced anyone with the pedigree of the German though and was outmanoeuvred in the first set as Kerber’s dogged defence forced too many errors. Williams dropped serve three times in the opening set and although she tried to fire herself up in the second she played a loose game at 2-3 and Kerber broke with a running pass. Serving for the match, Kerber looked nervous as Williams got it back to 30-30 but she claimed victory when Williams netted, tumbling to the dusty baseline in relief before being warmly embraced by her opponent. Her win, revenge for a 2016 defeat in the final by Williams, snapped the American’s 20-match winning run at Wimbledon.
Published in Daily Times, July 15th 2018.
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