{"id":14937,"date":"2013-06-09T04:58:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14937"},"modified":"2013-06-09T04:58:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:58:51","slug":"serena-beats-sharapova-to-win-french-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14937","title":{"rendered":"Serena beats Sharapova to win French Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-14936\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/397372_10152897466300311_1565464871_n.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Serena beats Sharapova to win French Open title\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/397372_10152897466300311_1565464871_n.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/397372_10152897466300311_1565464871_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Paris: Serena Williams got the better of Maria Sharapova to win the French Open and her 16th Grand Slam title here on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an all-star final between the Top 2 players in the world, things didn&#8217;t start out too smoothly for Williams as Maria Sharapova came out firing, coming back from 0-40 to hold serve in the opening game then breaking to go up 2-0. She even got to 40-15 in the next game &#8211; two points for a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>But Williams came alive from there, clawing back to break right back, weathering the Sharapova storm over the next several games until getting the critical break for 5-4. She built a 40-0 lead in that game and, after Sharapova saved her first set point with a forehand winner, Williams closed it out, 6-4.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two held tightly to their service games throughout the second set but a break in the third game was the dealbreaker, as the No.1-seeded Williams inched just ahead of the No.2-seeded Sharapova and didn&#8217;t really look back, holding the rest of the way and eventually ending it with one last ace, 6-4 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Williams dropped her racquet, dropped to the clay and screamed to the sky &#8211; her second French Open and 16th overall Grand Slam title, now two away from Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova&#8217;s 18.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\">http:\/\/www.wtatennis.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris: Serena Williams got the better of Maria Sharapova to win the French Open and her 16th Grand Slam title here on Saturday. In an all-star final between the Top 2 players in the world, things didn&#8217;t start out too smoothly for Williams as Maria Sharapova came out firing, coming back from 0-40 to hold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[8870,4638,6293,1740,4639,2683],"class_list":["post-14937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-16th-grand-slam-title","tag-french-open","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-roland-garros","tag-serena-williams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Serena beats Sharapova to win French Open title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=14937\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Serena beats Sharapova to win French Open title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paris: Serena Williams got the better of Maria Sharapova to win the French Open and her 16th Grand Slam title here on Saturday. 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