Having passed her earlier tests against more accomplished players, second seed Williams had far too many weapons for the 92nd-ranked Gibbs, who appeared overawed by the occasion at a sun-drenched Rod Laver Arena
Browsing: Serena Williams
The 35-year-old Williams, who is attempting to win an Open era record 23rd Grand Slam singles title, beat world number 61 Lucie Safarova 6-3 6-4
At 36, Williams is the oldest woman in the singles draw at Melbourne Park and seeded 13th for her Open era record-extending 73rd appearance at a Grand Slam
World number two Williams was beaten 6-4 6-7 (7/3) 6-4 by the 26-year-old, who is 70 places below her in the current rankings
The 35-year-old revealed her engagement story on Reddit – the website Alexis co-founded in 2005
Insisting that being a woman brings in a whole set of problems from society, the American said the scenario would have been completely different had she been a man
The two former world number ones had been the big-name draws of the Indian leg of this year’s International Premier Tennis League, which is scheduled to take place in Hyderabad from December 9 to 11
The 34-year-old Williams has been troubled by the problem with her right shoulder since winning Wimbledon, which was her 22nd Grand Slam singles title
The opening set lasted just 26 minutes as Pliskova broke the Williams’s serve on three occasions but it was a tighter affair in the second as Williams responded
“That’s pretty awesome and what a place to do it, where everything first started,” said the 34-year-old.
Serena won her first Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows in 1999
The top 10 in the rankings remains unchanged but Kerber, just 190 points behind the American, is hoping to alter that at the last grand slam of the season starting in New York
Neither Williams nor Djokovic has played a match since early exits at the Rio Olympic
The world number one’s struggles were highlighted by five double faults in the seventh game of the second set.
“It didn’t work out the way I wanted it to but at least I was able to make it to Rio – that was one of my goals,” Williams said
Williams will aim to break the record she currently shares with Steffi Graf for most Grand Slam titles in the Open era, while Djokovic will seek to reach his sixth final in the past seven years at Flushing Meadows
Serena heads home from the All England Club with two trophies: The doubles final started a little more than three hours after she beat Angelique Kerber for the singles championship on Saturday
The emotional triumph drew the superstar level with Steffi Graf’s open-era record tally of grand slam titles, after Kerber denied her the milestone in this year’s Australian Open final and Garbine Muguruza thwarted Williams again in last month’s French Open decider
She dropped only three points on serve in an embarrassingly one-sided 49 minutes – crunching down one 123mph delivery that topped the women’s speed charts at this year’s tournament
The fourth seed will be aiming to become the first German woman since Steffi Graf 20 years ago to lift the Wimbledon singles crown
Six-time champion, Serena Williams, overcame a first-set blip to reach Wimbledon’s last eight on Monday, with a straight-sets win over Svetlana Kuznetsova
It was actually Beck that secured the first break of the match at 1-1, but Williams then secured back-to-back breaks of her own, before holding twice to close out the first set 6-3