Wimbledon Semis: Victoria Azarenka vs Serena Williams -| 5 July 2012

Wimbledon Championship 2012 has now entered the danger zone of the ladies singles' semi finals stage. It is now just two days away from the final day as to who will be the Wimbledon queen this year.

The first semi final is being played between 3rd ranked Polish Agnieszka Radwanska takes between lefthanded 8th ranked German Angelique Kerber on the Centre Court.

Four times Wimbledon champion Serena [top] plays Azarenka [below] in semi final

This will be followed by an important semi final which may take 6th ranked American Serena Williams to play final and if she win there, she will cap her fifth Ladies Singles' title. Serena who has won four Wimbledon titles first rose to glory in 2002 when she beat her sister Venus Williams, who had already bagged the Wimbledon title five times. Serena last held the title in 2010 when she beat Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2.

As for today's semi final, Serena has met 2nd ranked Belorussian Azarenka eight times since Australian Open 2008- and won seven times times.

Serena moves to the semi fianls beating the defending champion P. Kvitova 6-3 7-5, crashing all her hopes to defend her title this year. Azarenka beat T. Paszek 6-3 7-6(4).

Let us watch this important semi finals today and see if Serena can move on to g the fifth title.

The match is scheduled for Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 13:30 GMT on the Centre Court.

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Federer and Serena Conquer Blue Clay of Madrid

What a day it was at Madrid Sunday - two ladies and two gentlemen stepped on the blue clay of Madrid for a memorable day in Tennis.

Jubilant Serena Williams - WTA Madrid Champion 2012

It was 9th ranked Serena Williams who faced the World No.1 Victoria Azarenka to win the crown for herself. And at the end of the match she had overpowered the World no.1 in simple straight win of 6-1, 6-3. The match just lasted four minutes past one hour. With the win, Williams took home $830,500, besides being crowned as Madrid's Queen for 2012.

The vanquished and the victorious at the blue courts of Madrid

Then came World no.3 Roger Federer for a battle with 7th ranked Tomas Berdych. And after an interesting and exciting match, Federer having lost the first set to the Czech 3-6, came back to game and won over Berdych 7-5, 7-5. The win replaces him with Nadal's No.2 ranking. Something Federer wanted more than anything at this time of the year, specially before the French Open. - a great day for the Swiss indeed. 

Watch below the screen shots from the last moments of the match, when the score was 3-6, 7-5, 6-5 (40-40):

Federer finally won and conquered the blue clay of Madrid for 2012. Herein under are the screen shots from award giving ceremony and guess who was the guest from the Hollywood:

Roger Federer's wife and daughters were also there to see Federer winning. But his daughters too young seemed oblivious of their father's victory - but surely Mrs Federer was the happiest wife Sunday at Madrid.


Screen shots Courtesy: Nova Sports / LS Hunter

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Watch Azarenka vs Serena (WTA Madrid Final)

So here we are: The WTA Madrid is about to reach its logical conclusion as the women singles final between the World No.1 Victoria Azarenka and 9th seeded Serena Williams is being played Sunday, 13 May 2012.

World no.1 Azaranka [above top] meets Serena Williams [above bottom] in WTA Madrid Final Sunday

In the two semi finals that were played Saturday, 9th seeded American Serena Williams beat L. Hradecka 7-6, 6-0, while the World no.1 Victoria Azarenka beat A Radwanska 6-2, 6-4.

As for the track record, like Serena had an upper edge over Sharapova, she also enjoys an upper edge over Azarenka since 2008 as in the seven matche played since between the two, Serena has won six matches, while Azarenka won only once against Williams at Miami in 2009.

In the last ten matches played by the two, Serena has a clean 10-0 victory record, while Azarenka faultered twice against Sharapova at Stuttgart and against Bartoli at Miami earlier this year. Serena's last victory was against World No.2 Maria Sharapova in the quarter finals of the ongoing WTA Madrid 6-1, 6-3.

Both would be vying for a win on Sunday - more so Serena who has been away from the tennis scene for a while and would want to clinch the victory and lift the silver.

The match is scheduled for Sunday, 13 May May 2012, 11:30 GMT.

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