Unwilling to go quietly, Williams staved off five match points to prolong the three-hours-plus proceedings, as some spectators stood to watch, camera phones at the ready. No one - save, of course, Tomljanovic - wanted this to end.
If this was, indeed, the last hurrah, she took her fans on a thrill-a-minute throwback ride at the hard-court tournament that was the site of a half-dozen of her 23 Grand Slam championships. The first came in 1999 in New York, when Williams was just 17.Williams gave away leads in each set, including the last, in which she was up 1-0 before dropping the final six games.
Williams let a 5-3 lead vanish in the first set. She did something similar in the second, giving away edges of 4-0 and 5-2, and requiring five set points to finally put that one in her pocket. From 4-all in the tiebreaker, meaning Williams was three points from defeat, she pounded a 117 mph ace, hit a forehand winner to cap a 20-stroke exchange, then watched Tomljanovic push a forehand long.
DavidNovarro7 Tirade una Whepa.
DavidNovarro7 David Navarro the Puerto Rican Frank Sinatra
No surprise. The other win was a fluke.
Go home granny
lol: white girl magic there there!
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Possibly the most dominant player in any sport ever.
Goes out like a champ. GOAT!
Ajla was amazing!!!
Did she break her tennis racket again?
She looks like a man
Yea,but with the true heart of the greatest tennis player to ever play the game.she fought hard till the end and went down swinging. I've seen her carrer from start to was totally so fortunate to be here at this time to see it all.