Australian Open: Williams sisters to compete in grand slam final

(CNN)On Australia Day at the Australian Open, Americans ruled in the ladies’s semifinals.

They advanced on the other hand styles, with Venus edging free-swinging, fellow California native CoCo Vandeweghe 6-7 (3-7) 6-2 6-3, prior to Serena squashed Croatia’s Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-2 6-1 in 50 minutes.
It’s a hit begin to the grand slam calendar, 12 months after the topic of match repairing eclipsed much of exactly what occurred on court at Melbourne Park.
Venus, at 36, ended up being the earliest females’s finalist in the Open Era at the Australian Open and the 2nd earliest behind a 37-year-old Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1994.
With a combined age of 71, it will be the earliest ladies’s grand slam last in the Open Era.
But the sis are revealing that quality precedes age.

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