今年的溫布敦又是一個威廉絲姐妹對決的冠亞軍賽。雖然這種戲碼已經好幾年沒有在溫布敦上演了，我想收視率應該不高吧！但是自從漢寧(Justin Henin)引退後(2008.5.12)，我就擔心女網又會時常上演威廉絲姐妹對決的戲碼，結果當年的溫布敦女單決賽就是威廉絲姐妹對決。還好後來東歐女子軍團還頗為爭氣，但是這個戲碼今年又重演了，而且又是在網球最高殿堂的溫布敦。
Henin 是繼 Hingis 之後我最喜歡的選手了，我似乎都是喜歡那種小個子，以細膩的球技在球場上力抗肌肉型選手的女球員。如果是 Henin vs. Williams, ....我應該是守著電視機，拿著球拍，全力為 Henin 加油吧！畢竟她的生涯獨缺溫布敦冠軍（但得過兩次的亞軍），而澳網、法網與美網的冠軍頭銜都拿到過了。
剛剛上了 Henin的網站，她現在似乎是在教小朋友打網球！Henin, wish you all the best!
男子的 Semi-final 將會是：
Federer (2) vs. Haas (24)
Murray (3) vs. Roddick (6)
補記 女單決賽結果是由 Serena 以 7:6, 6:2 擊敗她姊姊 Venus 贏得 2009 的溫布敦。
It’s Another All-Williams FinalBy CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
Published: July 2, 2009
WIMBLEDON, England — It was the women’s match of this Wimbledon, brimming with baseline power and lunging defense, and the surprise was that Serena Williams was just one point from losing it to Elena Dementieva.
Serena Williams celebrated a point during the women's singles semifinal match against Elena Dementieva of Russia.
But Williams, hardly for the first time, found a way to fight and serve her way through big tennis trouble. Down, 4-5, 30-40, on her serve in the third set, she pushed forward to the net. Dementieva sprinted to her left and hit a backhand passing shot crosscourt that Williams cut off with a backhand volley that clipped the net and landed for a winner.
Match point saved, or squandered, depending on your perspective, as Dementieva thrust out her hand and pointed down the line where she should have, could have, hit her passing shot instead.
There would be no second chance, although there was plenty more high-level tennis with the fourth-seeded Dementieva living quite comfortably at Williams’s accelerated pace and keeping her routinely off balance.
But while the second-seeded Williams was stretched, pushed and shaken, she could not be beaten, and she broke Dementieva’s serve in the 13th game with a clean backhand winner, then held on to her own serve to win, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 8-6.
Serena Williams will now face her sister Venus, who had a far easier time in defeating top-seeded Dinara Safina, 6-1, 6-0. The women’s championship match on Saturday will be a rematch of last year’s final and will be the fourth time the sisters have met for the title. Serena beat her sister in 2002 and 2003, while Venus, a five-time Wimbledon champion, beat Serena last year.
Venus Williams defeated Dinara Safina, 6-1, 6-0, to reach the Wimbledon final, where she will face her sister, Serena.
“It was really, really tough,” Serena Williams said after her match, still a bit short on breath several minutes after it had ended. “She’s been playing so well and has won a lot of matches against me in the past.”
Dementieva, the fast and blond Russian veteran long hampered by her weak serve, beat Williams three times in a row at one stage, with the most significant of those victories coming in the quarterfinals of last year’s Olympics in Beijing.
But Williams has now won their two encounters this year: she also beat Dementieva, in straight sets, in the semifinals of the Australian Open, which was no match for Thursday’s three-set, 2-hour-49-minute classic.
“We gave the crowd a wonderful match,” Williams said.
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