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Serena Williams Wins WTA Title at Charleston

WTA Charleston - Final

5 Serena Williams d 9 Lucie Safarova - 60 61

What a terrible weekend to have tickets to a tennis tournament.

The last 3 matches of the tourny the opponents won a total of 3 games.

More impressive was Serena playing zoned ball.

Serena lost a total of 15 games on her way to her trophy hoist - her 40th.

And she says she's really looking forward to the clay season and Paris.

When Serena is playing like this who will deny her?

Photo: Reuters

ATP & WTA Weekend Winners for April 10, 2011

The ATP saw Pablo Andujar & Ryan Sweeting win their 1st tour titles today.

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Marbella WTA: 1 Victoria Azarenka d Q Irina-Camelia Gebu - 63 62

Vika makes it 2-in-a-row after winning at Miami last week.

Welcome to the top 5 girl!

Casablanca: Pablo Andujar d 5 Potito Starace - 61 62

Pablo is currently ranked #69. He is the 12th ranked Spaniard.

After today's win he should be up to #9 in Spain.

Charleston: 1 Caroline Wozniacki d Elena Vesnina - 62 63

This is Caro's 3rd title of 2011. And, yes, solidifies her #1 ranking.

Jet lag: She is playing an exo in Monte-Carlo tomorrow at 3. Phew.

Houston: WC Ryan Sweeting d 6 Kei Nishikori - 64 76(3)

Title #1 was accompanied with a jump in the River Oaks pool.

Ryan will see his ranking jump to just outside the top 50.

Quallies are gonna be a thing of the past.

Photos: AP/Reuters

Caroline Wozniacki into WTA Charleston Final

Charleston WTA - Semifinal

1 Caroline Wozniacki d 3 Jelena Jankovic - 64 64

Love her or not Caro sure does win a LOT of matches.

In her last 10 tournaments she has made the finals of 7 - winning 4.

She is a clear #1 in the rankings but many still refuse to give her props.

Including Chris Evert saying, "She needs to win the French."

Chris also said that Caro would "for sure" win a Slam in her career.

She'll next play Elena Vesnina - H2H: 4-1/CW - including the last 3.

Don't know about you but I'm ready for all the players to be in Europe.

Samantha Stosur Wins Charleston Title

4 Samantha Stosur d 7 Vera Zvonareva - 60 64

At 52 minutes - it was the fasted final in tournament history.

Sam wins her 2nd career WTA title following Osaka last season.

Afterward Sam addressed the crowd: "The first title I won is always going to be very special. It took me a while to get that. This is bigger than Osaka though. To do it on clay and playing well all week is just a great feeling. You can't really compare the two, but this is definitely a bigger event and I'm pleased I was able to play so well."

Warning: Pam and Cliffy think she is gonna have a big year. She just may.

WTA Charleston Thursday's Results

THIRD ROUND

1 Caroline Wozniacki d 16 Patty Schnyder - 62 75

2 Jelena Jankovic d Evgeniya Rodina - 63 61

4 Samantha Stosur d 14 Vera Dushevina - 61 36 61

6 Nadia Petrova d Aleksandra Wozniak - 62 64

7 Vera Zvonareva d 9 Alona Bondarenko - 62 61

8 Daniela Hantuchova d Angelique Kerber - 67(6) 75 63

Peng Shuai d 10 Elena Vesnina - 75 26 62

13 Melaine Oudin d Q Christina McHale - 64 60

Photo: Caroline Wozniacki - Reuters