les women grand slam titles
Serena Williams dominated the Australian Open 2017 finals match in straight sets (6-4, 6-4). By winning her 7th Australian Open, she sat the record in the Open Era Slate earning her twenty-three Grand Slam Titles. Serena is the older sister of Venus.
Serena Williams' twenty Three Grand Slam Singles titles surpassed former number one rank German, Steffi Graf. The most number of titles with one statement ahead of Serena is Australia's Margaret Court with twenty-four. Serena snatched the number one world ranking in women's tennis from Germany's Angelique Kerber, as reported by the New York Times.
Serena Williams at 35 years old, hacked her way to the grand slam finals. On her way of victories to reach the finals of the Australian Open 2017 Women's championship, her first match I the round of 32 was against fellow American Nicole Gibbs - [1-6, 3-6]. Barbara Srycova of the Czech Republic was the next to fall at [5-7, 4-6] in the round of 16. Venus Blasted British Johanna Konta in the quarter-finals in two sets [2-6, 3-6]. The semi-finals match was against Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni [2-6, 1-6]. Serena swept her sister Venus at [6-4. 6-4] for the Australian Open 2017 Women's singles Championship.
Venus Williams at 36, became the oldest finals player in grand slam history of tennis. Her path to the Australian Open Women's Championship Finals did not come easy. The way was full of motivated and hungry for victory protagonists. Venus' first match in the round of 32 was against Duan Yingying of China beating her [1-6, 0-6]. She then disposed of Mona Barthel of Germany [6-3, 7-5] in the round of 16. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Russia with a score of [4-6, 6-7] in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, Venus dropped fellow American Coco Vandeweghe in three sets.[7-6, 2-6, 3-6], as recapped in Google.
Serena Williams went home £2.24 million richer as her prize money for the Australian Open 2017 Women's Single Champion. Venus share of the pot is £1.15 million as summarized in an article written in Telegraph.