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It is easy to forget in this era when tennis has slipped so far down the ladder of sports' hierarchy. Serena Williams is a bad ass tennis player. She is tougher, stronger and simply better than almost all comers. Tennis has fallen from the point where Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe were global icons to slightly more relevant than lacrosse and American soccer. However, this dimming of the sport's glow has not diminished Williams' accomplishments or presence. Serena Williams has won more money at her sport than any other woman ever.

Last night in the Land Down Under, she won her 10th Grand Slam title. She did so in the dominating fashion that is the hallmark of all of the Grand Slam Finals she plays, save for those against her sister. Williams easily dismissed the Russian, Dinara Safina, who would have been number one in the world if she could have beaten Williams. Instead Serena crushed her 6-0 and 6-3, winning the first set in a mere twenty-two minutes and seized the number one ranking for herself. This followed the pattern Williams has laid down, she has won the Australian Open every other year since 2003. Two years she crushed another talented Russian, Maria Sharapova, 6-1, 6-2.

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