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A year after losing the final in New York against Naomi Osaka and starring in a shameful show in front of the chair judge, Serena Williams revived the drama before a 19-year-old girl debuting at the US Open. Bianca Andreescu frustrated again the attempt of the American to reach the 24 titles of the Grand Slam of Margaret Court , when defeating it by 6-3 and 7-5 , in an hour and 39 minutes, to get her first major. Maximum credit for Andreescu, whose joy and resolution led her to a colossal victory, in a show of temperance and improper throwing of her 19 years and 83 days.

She had to suffer, after Serena Williams saved a match ball to the rest being 5-1 down and signed a reaction that allowed her to equal five and renew the enthusiasm of the New York public. But he endured the stake and won the title to the rest, with a winning right, of the many that lavished throughout the night. The player of Romanian origin certifies the enormous expectations she had been awakening from her flashing irruption in the circuit. It is Serena's fourth false attempt to emulate Court on her return to the courts after giving birth to her daughter Olympia: she lost with Angelique Kerber in the Wimbledon final last year, she fell with Naomi Osaka months later in New York , he stumbled again with Simona Halep , already in 2019, again in the All England Club, and he does it now against Andreescu.

Without just playing tournaments outside the Grand Slam, Serena makes a place in the final match thanks to her power of intimidation, the enormous weight of her name, but fails to achieve the goal she has pursued since winning the Australian Open in 2017

Andreescu went out to Arthur Ashe as if he were still playing challengers , the tournaments he needed to move around a year ago. Loose, with freshness, he broke in the first game, helped by two consecutive double faults from his rival, and had five balls to place 5-2 and service. They were saved by the American, who suffered in each game and had not just found a way to govern the game. It was of little help to escape from that trance.

It was a final marked by the extraordinary contrasts of every sign between the two players, with the greatest age distance between the two protagonists in the professional era. 18 years and 263 days. When Serena, who played her thirty-third Grand Slam final, won the first of her 23 greats in New York, Andreescu was not born.

Serena's problems with the serve , 45% of success with the first, were magnified in the outcome of the set, which Serena closed with a double foul. Andreescu showed an admirable development, fast in his movements and with the added creativity that characterizes it. It was she who dictated the guidelines of the game and kept her rival running from side to side.

Champion in Indian Wells and Toronto , where he saw Serena retreating from a back injury when she lost 3-1, Andreescu appeared in the game of his life with excellent pronouncements, but it was difficult to imagine that he would maintain the pulse in such circumstances demanding. He left early in the second set and endured Serena's reaction. Near the age of 38, the challenge that keeps the American active seems ever further.

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