Serena back on top of women's tennis

Published time: February 16, 2013 07:51
Edited time: February 16, 2013 11:51
Serena Williams (AFP Photo / Karim Jaffaar)

US tennis star Serena Williams will become the World No.1 women's player as soon as the new WTA rankings are announced on Monday.

­Williams ensured her top spot by coming from a set down to beat Czech player Petra Kvitova 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the WTA quarterfinals in Doha, Qatar.

“Thanks everyone for all the support. Back to number one and it feels so good,” Williams wrote on her Twitter page afterwards.

The American, who’s now 31 years and four months old, will become the oldest women's World No.1 in the game’s history.

The younger Williams sister previously topped the Women’s Tennis Association rankings in the 2002 season.

Serena will replace Victoria Azarenka as world’s best player, with the Belarusian also making it to the semis in Doha after a 6-2, 6-2 win over Italy’s Sara Errani.    

Her return to the top has been no walk in the park, as she survived an emergency surgery in 2011 after her life was put at risk by hematoma and a pulmonary embolism.

But the American bounced back in spectacular fashion, dominating the 2012 season with victories at Wimbledon, the US Open and the London Olympics.

Next on Williams’s agenda is Russia’s Maria Sharapova, whom she will face in the in the Qatari semifinal.

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Otto von Bülow (unregistered) 19.02.2013 15:09

Just hour ago the new “number one” Black-Woman-Man Mutant Hybrid Serena Williams got her huge doped behind whipped  by tall slender pretty blond from White Russia … ha ha ha.. Queen Victoria the First of the house of Azarenka …in Qatar….from all places.:   7-6, 2-6, 6-3   Queen Victoria pocketed very nice check doing that.     Azar enka does not know that she just defeated a MAN! Man named Serena Williams who was serving 125 mph … wow… wow.. this is faster service  than that of mans’ number one Novak Djokovic or Roger Federer …In the first set,  Azarenka just chased the Doped Mutant all over the court like a yoyo …and that made the  difference.   Azarenka jerked this African doped mutant back and forth back and forth, it was sad to watch, the big doped muscles of the Mutant were actually liability in that situation. I thought the Mutant was going to collapse and die right there on the court in Qatar!   Girls, learn from The Queen Victoria Azarenka how to finish off African doped mutants! You just have to chase them all over the place!   The Queen Azarenka is not just another blue-eyed pretty face, she is very very smart lady with killer instinct.   

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Otto von Bülow (unregistered) 19.02.2013 15:05

 ……. I would not have problem if this would be not WTA -Women’s Tennis Association but HTA Hybrid (Woman-Man Mutant) Tennis Association. Then I would say Williams is just fine!   Blood doping drug EPO have taken things to a new level in recent years. Pharmacological advances, as new breakthroughs allow drugs to be emerged that are undetectable , at least until new tests are developed. Willia ms  does what Lance Armstrong did. Plus Serena is using some kind of drug enhancing her alertness, a  high tech crack? If she does not stop that soon she will be dead sooner than she thinks. Everybody knows that Venus and Serena Williams have been Blood Dopers, for years! USA’s entire black Olympic team is DOPED! Please! So Serena Williams had a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot that travels to the lungs)...so serious she almost died 2 years ago! Surprise, surprise... This is the best proof that she is doped with EPO,  a hormone given to black athletes to increase red blood cells, oxygen absorption and prevent the effects of lactic acid buildup.  It also thickens the blood and massively increases the risk for embolisms of all kinds. 10 years ago, besides EPO,  Williams sisters used to be given stimulants like pseudoephedrine, ep hedrine and phenylpropanolamine but who knows what they are given  today…a boutique drug WTA cowards do not test them for, if they even tried to thest black players they would be dismissed  as ugly racists. They are free to focus on east European girls instead.   Ha ve a chat with Williams’ French coach.   Pls do not delete my comment… thanks

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BS (unregistered) 17.02.2013 01:18

Yikes (unregistered) wrote in #7
Its only a matter of time before one comes out as gay and the other reveals it is a he not she.

Not sure about the gay part, but I bet we'll hear about health problems soon. Nobody can use that much hormone drug and not suffer side effects.

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