How is Serena doing?
Serena Williams won her third WTA Championships title with a 6-4 6-3 win over Maria Sharapova in Istanbul.
Williams did not drop a set all week and Sharapova was unable to make much impact on the American’s serve.
“Maria won the last time we played in the Championships final [in 2004] and she’s ranked ahead of me so I had nothing to lose,” she said.
World number three Williams, 31, has won seven titles in 2012, including the US Open, Wimbledon and the Olympics.
The 15-time major winner leads Russian world number two Sharapova 10-2 in head-to-heads and has won her last 13 matches against top-four players.
“It feels great to have achieved my dream,” added Williams.
“The Turkish crowd were fantastic. I have never seen so many signs with my name on them before.”
Williams is back to the top of her game after battling career-threatening injury and illness in 2010 and 2011.
And she said 2012 was every bit as good as 2002 and 2003, when she held all four Grand Slam titles at once – the so-called ‘Serena Slam’.