serena williams won the 2017 australian open women's single title.
serena williams won the 2017 australian open women's single title.
who wins the 2017 australian open women's single title?
serena williams
the williams sisters are two professional american tennis players: venus williams (b. 1980), a seven-time grand slam title winner (singles), and serena williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time grand slam title winner (singles), both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents richard williams and oracene price. there is a noted professional rivalry between them—between the 2001 us open and the 2017 australian open tournaments, they met in nine grand slam singles finals. they became the first two players, female or male, to play in four consecutive grand slam singles finals from the 2002 french open to the 2003 australian open; serena famously won all four to complete the first of two "serena slams". between 2000 and 2016, a 17-year span, they collectively won 12 wimbledon singles titles (venus won five, and serena won seven). by winning the 2001 australian open women's doubles title, they became the fifth pair to complete the career doubles grand slam and the only pair to complete the career doubles golden slam. at the time, venus and serena were only 20 and 19 years old, respectively. since then, they have gone on to add another two olympic gold medals in the 2008 beijing olympics and the 2012 london olympics. nearly a decade later, the duo would go on to win four consecutive grand slam doubles titles from 2009 wimbledon through 2010 roland garros, which would catapult them to co-no. 1 doubles players on 7 june 2010. two weeks later, on 21 june 2010, serena would hold the no. 1 singles ranking, and venus would be right behind her at no. 2 in singles. their most recent grand slam doubles titles came at the 2012 wimbledon and 2016 wimbledon events. they remain very close, often watching each other's matches in support, even after one of them has been knocked out of a tournament.
williams sisters
winning his 5th australian open men's singles title, roger federer extended his all-time record of grand slam titles to 18, pulling four ahead of the second all-time count of 14 held by rafael nadal and pete sampras. federer also became the first man ever to win at least 5 singles majors at 3 different grand slams each (australian open, wimbledon, and us open). in addition to being denied his third effort to win the australian open title, nadal was also denied, for the second time after the 2014 australian open men's singles final, from becoming the first man to achieve a double career grand slam in the open era. furthermore, federer's victory over nadal in the australian open 2017 final was his first grand slam match win over nadal since the 2007 wimbledon final nearly a decade earlier, and also marked federer's first ever win over nadal in a grand slam match outside of the grass courts of wimbledon. most importantly, federer's 2017 australian open title victory marked the culmination of his years-long quest since his 2012 wimbledon title win for his 18th grand slam singles title, which previously saw three finals appearances and losses all to then-reigning no. 1 novak djokovic at the 2014 wimbledon, 2015 wimbledon and the 2015 us open. at 35 years and 174 days of age, federer became the second-oldest winner of a grand slam after ken rosewall since 1972. considered altogether along with his return from his six-month injury layoff, his 2017 australian open run seeing three 5-set match wins over top 10 players, and his grand slam match history of losses against nadal, federer's victory from being down 1–3 in the final set against nadal in the 2017 australian open men's singles final is considered by some to be the biggest win in his career.
2017 australian open – men's singles final