Serena Williams blazed through the first six matches of the 2019 U.S. Open losing only one set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That does not sound like the lead-up to: Serena Williams gets overpowered and swept off the court by a 19year old in the 2019 U.S. Open final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bianca Andreescu, a 19-year-old Canadian born, of Romanian heritage, meteorically rising star, overpowered and swept Williams in straight sets (3-6, 5-7) to earn her first major tennis title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the loss Williams amassed her 10th runner-up trophy in a Grand Slam final, rather than what would have been her record-breaking 24th major championship title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The anxious wait to celebrate Williams record-breaking achievement has stalled into a sudden, dramatic pause. A star-studded audience at Arthur Ashe stadium, including director Spike Lee \u2013 surely gathering script material \u2013 and Williams\u2019 close friend Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, waited purposefully for the historical crowning moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Williams foreshadowed the ultimate championship result by opening the match with a nervous double fault. Within minutes a composed Williams faced an 0-2 deficit, punctuated by Andreescu\u2019s teenage vocal chords mimicking Williams\u2019 famous in-game screams of \u201ccome on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Williams responded to the vocal challenges several times, yet the roars of the elder seemed to lack the convinced aspiration of her neophyte opponent. The patient dominance of Williams six early rounds didn\u2019t rise to the challenge of a young woman trained to defeat the current stalwart icons of the game \u2013 Andreescu\u2019s training involves long invested meditation and reportedly (per ESPN broadcast) even training versus male counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The match replayed a similar script as the previous infamous 2018 U.S. Open final loss to Naomi Osaka (2-6, 4-6). That match, a much quicker two set sweep, inspired Williams\u2019 unforgettable verbal altercation with chair umpire Carlos Ramos, leading to various international scrutiny; and a stern rebuttal by Williams, claiming unequal historical treatment of women by chair umpires for potential in-game rules infractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The upset losses to Osaka and Andreescu are the 5th and 6th Grand Slam final losses of Williams\u2019 last eight. For perspective, Williams only lost four of her previous 25 Grand Slam finals beginning in 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2017 Australian Open was Williams\u2019 most recent Grand Slam final victory, where she swept her sister Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4. Adding to her historic lore, Williams completed that victory whilst early in the pregnancy of her first child, Olympia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The captivating cliffhanger since that victory, Williams 23rd, has many pundits, tennis fans and Serena fans considering the potentiality of her career faltering to a limp close. The problem with that rush to judgment goes back to Williams\u2019 play during early round matches, where she continues to blaze past opponents. It\u2019s a pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pattern reveals a player that is still ranked 10th by the World Tennis Association, yet is consistently falling short in ultimate championship moments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And though supreme credit must be given to Williams\u2019 opponents in her recent stretch of finals losses, it seems an issue of emotional endurance that most humans suffer from through the many trials of life: anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Williams has overcome a tremendous amount of difficulties and setbacks throughout her career. Observers can bet she overcomes the difficulty of an anxious mother, striving to become the greatest tennis player of all-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Serena Williams blazed through the first six matches of the 2019 U.S. Open losing only one set. That does not sound like the lead-up to: Serena Williams gets overpowered and swept off the court by a 19year old in the 2019 U.S. Open final. Bianca Andreescu, a 19-year-old Canadian born, of Romanian heritage, meteorically rising […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2227,2228,2226],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-bianca-andreescu","tag-grand-slam-final","tag-serena-williams","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}