The going was getting tough - her opponent was crushing winners off both wings and stormed out to a 5-2 lead in the first set - but Serena Williams was just getting going, and after an hour and 59 minutes she had a 75 61 win over Li Na and a record seventh Sony Open Tennis crown. In a dream championship match-up between the Top 2 players in the world, it was actually the No.2-ranked Li who came out stronger, her massive groundstrokes on song as she stormed out to a 5-2 lead. But Williams wasn't done yet - she wasn't even done with the set.
After closing the gap to 5-4, she saved a set point in the next game with a down-the-line backhand winner from behind the baseline and off her back foot, and after a series of massive returns she would sneak that first set out, 7-5. Li put up a valiant fight in the second set, but by then Williams just had too much momentum - the American ended up winning 11 of the last 12 games of the match to close it out and get the title.
Williams already had the record for most Sony Open Tennis titles coming in but now increases the lead with her seventh (Steffi Graf had the previous record with five). She's one of only four players to win the same WTA event seven or more times (along with Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Graf).
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