Vika On Top

[RJD11]

Azarenka beats top-ranked Serena in exhibition match

HUA HIN, Thailand (AP)

Victoria Azarenka beat top-ranked Serena Williams in straight sets Saturday in an exhibition match between the world's top two women's players.

The second-ranked Azarenka defeated Williams 7-5, 6-3 in front of about 3,000 fans at the Hua Hin World Tennis Invitation in a match both players used as a warm-up ahead of the Australian Open.

Azarenka broke for a 6-5 lead in the first set and broke twice in the second for her second victory at the exhibition event after 2011.

Williams beat Azarenka in the U.S. Open final this year.

The American said the match was ''a good warm-up before Australia. Victoria is a strong player. It's always fun to play someone like her.''



Two Questions:

1. Is this an Omen of things to come?

or

2. Just an Exo that means nothing?

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Personally I dont read too much into the results of Expo's.
Lets wait and see the results in Brisbane.

 

[Calvy]

An exhibition holds about as much implications as me blowing my nose.

Have u ever watched Serena play an exhibition match? She puts about as effort in as Bernard Tomic puts in an actual match, not very much.

Last year she lost to Radwanska in straights at exhibition, we saw how much that factored into their meaningful match3s this year

 

[RJD11]

Yes Fashion and Calvy I know how those Exos go with Ree

and I agree with you guys.

I was just on another board and some over there are already

celebrating a Vika threepeat @ the AO and a return to No 1.