Venus Williams vs Agnieszka Radwanska Preview

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 8:57 am , filed under Tournaments, U.S. Open by Peter Johnson

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Venus Williams vs Agnieszka Radwanska Sony Ericssion Open 2010 match on Tuesday, March 30, 2010.

Venue: Crandon Park

Time: 11:00 A.M

Players Report:

Venus Williams will meet Agnieszka Radwanska in the Sony Ericssion Open 2010 match on Tuesday.

Venus Williams is a American No.1 star player is looking to show her dominance against Agnieszka Radwanska.
Venus Williams is the reigning Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open doubles champion and has won 20 Grand Slam titles: seven in women’s singles, eleven in women’s doubles and two in mixed doubles. In addition, she has won three Olympic gold medals, one in women’s singles and two in women’s doubles.

Venus started the 2010 year by losing to Maria Sharapova in straight sets in an exhibition match. As the defending champion, Venus played the Hong Kong Tennis Classic 2010. As a member of Team Americas with Gisela Dulko and Michael Chang, they won the Silver Group Final. Venus won both singles rubbers in the tournament against Caroline Wozniacki and Jie Zheng.

Venus played at the 2010 Australian Open as the sixth seed. She defeated Lucie Safarova 6–2, 6–2 in the first round, Sybille Bammer 6–2, 7–5 in the second round and Casey Dellacqua 6–1, 7–6(4) in the third round. She faced #17 Francesca Schiavone in the fourth round defeating her in an almost two hour match 3–6, 6–2, 6–1 to advance to the quarterfinals. She was two points away from the semifinals up 6–2, 5–3 , before falling to 16th seed Li Na in the quarterfinals in 3 sets (6–2, 6–7, 5–7).

In 2010 Sony Ericsson Open, Miami she is seeded third. She received a bye in the First Round but eliminated Sorana Cirstea, 6–4 6–3 after recovering from a deficit of 2–4 in the first set and sweeping the last three games at 3–3 in the second. Her Third Round victory over Roberta Vinci was much more impressive, dropping just 8 points on her first serve to race into a 6–1 6–4 victory. Venus then faced Daniela Hantuchova in the 4th round, winning 1-6 7-5 6-4. Williams led 5-3 in the second before being broken, but managed to recover to force a third set. Similarly, she was up a break 3-2 in the second before again losing her serve.

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