Australian Open: A sour start, then Serena makes it sweet 16

By Greg Baum
Updated February 24 2015 - 10:33am, first published January 31 2015 - 11:50pm

It took only the first point of this final to demolish the fanciful idea that this would be the night when Serena Williams' spell over Maria Sharapova broke. Sharapova's serve came back at her with all the leaden weight of Williams' backhand behind it, and Sharapova could only dink it into the net.

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