Serena Williams vs Maria Sharapova Live Match Updates Australian Open 2015 Final: Serena Williams beats Sharapova to win Aus Open 2015 title

Their age-old rivalry is one-sided dominated by Serena Williams who is proud of her impeccable 16-2 head-to-head count against her Russian opponent.

Updated: January 31, 2015 4:07 PM IST

By India.com Sports Desk

Serena Williams vs Maria Sharapova Live Match Updates Australian Open 2015 Final: Serena Williams beats Sharapova to win Aus Open 2015 title

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Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova in straight sets 6-3, 7-6 (5) to lift the Australian Open 2015 title. This is Serena’s sixth title in Melbourne Park and 19th overall career grand slam. 

Set 2: Serena Williams 6 Maria Sharapova 6 We are headed to tie-breakers as Sharapova holds a very important service game.

Set 2: Serena Williams 6 Maria Sharapova 5* Sharapova fails to break Serena’s great wall of defence, swinging forehand winners, huge serves as the World No.1 inches to another shot at championships title.

Set 2: Serena Williams 5* Maria Sharapova 5 Sharapova survives the match point to be back in the match. She was behind 30-40 and came back with a resurgence and tactful drop-down that seems to be her most effective weapon in this match.

Set 2: Serena Williams 5 Maria Sharapova 4* Quick, easy, to the point, blasting first serves off Serena’s racquet takes World no. 1 near to the championship title. She is one game away from lifting her sixth Australian Open title and 19th overall.

Set 2: Serena Williams 4* Maria Sharapova 4  Sharapova holds crucial service game with some good serves. She did not allow Serena in the eighth game of the second set, something she will have to do on Serena’s service games if she has to have any chance of winning the title.

Set 2: Serena Williams 4 Maria Sharapova 3* And just when Masha supporters thought there was an opening for their idol to crawl in the match back at 30-0 up, Serena serves three aces of the game and 12th overall to get herself out of trouble. She saved a break point after getting to deuce but no damage done to her near perfect game.

Set 2: Serena Williams 3* Maria Sharapova 3 Maria Sharapova survives break point chances and great defensive skills of Serena Williams to stay in hunt.

Set 2: Serena Williams 3 Maria Sharapova 2* Looks like this match should have been played in boxing ring and not on tennis court with the amount of hated glares and provoking ‘come’ons’ exchanged between the two players in Melbourne Park. But there is no difference in Serena’s game as she is yet to drop her service game.

Set 2: Serena Williams 2* Maria Sharapova 2 Sharapova is being made to toil hard for every single point on her serve as well but a good anticipated down the line shot helps her stay in the game and hold her serve.

Set 2: Serena Williams 2 Maria Sharapova 1* Meanwhile its express train from the other side, as not 100 percent fit Serena got no difficulty holding her service game. She leads 2-1 in second set and is one set up.

Set 2: Serena Williams 1* Maria Sharapova 1  First time in the match, Sharapova looking the champion player she is known as. She saved two break points after being down 15-40 down to fire three back-to-back big serves and makes sure no damage is done.

Set 2: Serena Williams 1 Maria Sharapova 0* Looks a lost ccause already for Maria sharapova as she appears hopeless with every point Serena wins. Ever since the match resumed, Serena looks on fire. She takes the first game of second set easily.

Set 1: Serena Williams takes the first set 6-3 Serena’s shriek after winning the set point says it all. The shrieking ‘Come’on’ with hand clenched in fist in direction of her opponent tells you about her intent of never going down against Sharapova.  The thrid BREAK POINT earned by Serena hands her opening set.

Set 1: Maria Sharapova 3* Serena Williams 5 Sharapova pulls one service game from Serena after she follows her 191 kmph serve with a rare double fault. Sharapova survives in the set, for now.

Set 1: Maria Sharapova 2 Serena Williams 5* Maria Sharapova is doing no good to her already appalling record against Serena as she squandered to give her nemesis second BREAK POINT.

Set 1: Maria Sharapova 2* Serena Williams 4 – Serena resumes the match serving a fiery ace followed by crackling return on her her serve to maintain healthy 4-2 lead. At crucial juncture on Serena’s serve at 30-30, its the rain that play spoilsport in Melbourne Park. The roof over Rod Laver Arena court will be closed and that should take around 17 minutes time.

Set 1: Maria Sharapova 2 Serena Williams 3* Two missed forehand errors from Serena and smart drop shot by Maria, helps World No. 2 hold on to her service game.

Set 1: Maria Sharapova 1* Serena Williams 3 Right from the first step on Rod Laver Arena court, Serena Williams looks on mission. The two players who are known to cold shoulder each other over the past decade, Serena seems to remember to bring the same passion on court at the moment. She holds her service and not look threatened.

Set 1: Maria Sharapova 1 Serena Williams 2* Finally Sharapova gets herself on the scoreboard as she quickly wraps the third game with powerful serves.

Set 1: Maria Sharapova 0* Serena Williams 2 After breaking Sharapova’s service game, Williams makes easy work by  consolidating her service game. She holds with little difficulty as she murders Sharapova’s grounstrokes to go 2-0 up.

Set 1: Maria Sharapova 0 Serena Williams 1* The intent is very clear from the World No. 1 Serena Williams – winning the match at every cost. She hammers her fiery returns to Sharapova’s wobbly serves. She earns her first BREAK POINT right at the start of the very first game of the final.

Serena Williams overcame feisty teenage challenger Madison Keys to set up a dream Australian Open final with Maria Sharapova. The two players not to share cordial relations off-court but respect each other’s achievement on-court will be meeting for the 19th times on professsional tour. Their age-old rivalry is one-sided dominated by Serena Williams who is proud of her impeccable 16-2 head-to-head count against her Russian opponent.

 The world number one had to battle against Keys, considered the heir apparent as the queen of American womens` tennis, before she eventually overcame the 19-year-old 7-6(5) 6-2 to set up the final against the Russian. Also: Serena Williams vs Maria Sharapova, Australian Open 2015 Final: Get Free Live Streaming & Match Telecast on Sony Six

Williams, a five times champion at Melbourne Park, however, felt she entered the tournament in a funk, having played badly at the Hopman Cup in Perth earlier this month and mindful she had crashed out to lower ranked players in the last three years. “I`m really excited to be in the final again. I didn`t come here with that expectation so it`s really exciting,” she said after she made her first Melbourne Park final since 2010.

Williams, bidding for a 19th grand slam singles title, got the match back on serve in the sixth game and then produced several important serves in the tiebreak. Williams romped through the second set to 5-1 lead, though Keys refused to quit and saved eight match points.

The confidence of overcoming two match points in a second round clash against Alexandra Panova has ultimately paid off for Maria Sharapova as she advanced to her fourth Australian Open final with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Ekaterina Makarova. In that second round match more than a week ago, the 28-year-old Russian realised she had no choice but to stand and deliver against Panova, banging off two forehand winners that kissed the tramlines to prolong her tournament.

Since that moment, the Russian has looked virtually unbeatable, none more evident than in semi-final. Makarova, who also reached the last four at the 2014 U.S. Open, had not dropped a set all tournament and her easy win over third seed Simona Halep in the quarter-finals gave her plenty of confidence going into the contest despite her 5-0 losing record against Sharapova.

The five-times grand slam winner, however, used all of her experience to negate Makarova`s tricky serve, slow down the tempo on her own serve in swirling wind conditions and barely move beyond the service mark on the baseline.

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