Wimbledon 2010 Day 7: S Williams v Sharapova

Cat did want me to scuttle out to meet her – but she’d gotten herself a really good spot on the hill – and me having never seen Maria play live, I didn’t really want to leave the match… so we decided to leave trying to meet up for the time being…





Match started strongly – games held all round, Shrieky… Shrieking.
Serena was basically giving a lesson on Serving! Initially Maria was needing to settle down and find her range a little.











They traded breaks next up – including an episode where Maria had her racquet up indicating she wasn’t ready – but Serena sent it down anyway…! Tsk!





The set continued with serve and Maria got it to a TB.
She was playing awesomely – she was very competitive and the TB was amazing… I think it’s fair to say that MaSha was the form player and Serena was being pushed, but a badly timed DF at 9-9 gave Ree that all important mini-break and was able to take that first set.

I think losing that set perhaps took away a little of MaSha’s intensity – there were more costly DFs in the 3rd game – giving Ree an early break.
That being said – a chronic miss by Serena which earned one of her frustrated squeals kept it to a single break.
Bit of pressure meant that both of them were being drawn to the net but again some amazing shots – a total reflex shot at MaSha left Ree beaten…

However – Ree served it out at 5-4 and that convincing lesson in serving means she’s going to be the favourite going forward to the last few rounds…