Grand Slam Sparks Career For Bryans

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Both semifinal matches lasted two hours, 12 minutes.

 

Azarenka is 3-3 in her career against Sharapova, with two of those wins coming in finals.

 

The winner of Saturday's title match will become the new world No. 1, supplanting Clijsters' quarterfinal victim, Caroline Wozniacki. Sharapova has not held the top ranking since the week of June 8, 2007.

 

The 21-year-old Kvitova missed wildly on an overhead smash to lose her second service game, the first of three breaks for Sharapova in the opening set.

 

Sharapova, seeded fourth, lost the second set, and was down 0-30 at 4-4 in the third before a replay reversal gave her new life. The Russian won the next four points to put the pressure back on Kvitova, who could not hold serve thanks to several unforced errors in the final game.

 

The former world No. 1 Sharapova's last major title came at the 2008 Aussie Open. The Russian was the Aussie runner-up in 2007.

 

If this was, in fact, the Belgian's final visit to the season's first major, she went down fighting. Azarenka broke Clijsters' second service game of the match, then fought off four break chances in the proceeding game.

 

Clijsters, the 11th seed, quickly evened the match before falling behind 4-1 in the third. She held serve and trailed 40-0 in the next game before earning another break to get back on serve.

 

But Azarenka, riding a 10-match winning streak after winning in Sydney earlier this month, earned her fourth break of the match to serve for a spot in the final.

 

In the quarterfinals, Clijsters fought off four match points against last year's Aussie runner-up to her, Li Na.

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•    #Djokovic is unsure that #Murray’s new coach, 8 time Grand Slam champion Ivan Lendl, can make an immediate difference in his student’s play!

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•    Does playing grand slam tennis 2 count as working out? Because I'm sweating..

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•    Men's Tennis is now boring....You can predict the last 4 in each grand slam. 1) Djokovic 2) Nadal 3) Federer 4) Murray

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•    Elke ochtend is hangover op slam fm -___-"

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•    exciting parin naman ang finals ngaun,kc d nmn tambakan ang game xcpt sa game1, la lng tlga finishing kick ang powerade

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•    Bethanie Mattek-Sands is into first Grand Slam final, teaming with Horia Tecau to beat Mirza/Bhupathi 6-3, 6-3. #AusOpen

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•    omg how the relationship status shows on bryans profile is SOO cute.. its just a big ass picture of angela <333333

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