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Serena Williams #2 def. Elena Dementieva #4

6-3 6-4

Match Information

Date	Jan 30, 2009*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Serena Williams
Score	6-3 6-4
Loser	Elena Dementieva

Stat	Serena Williams	Elena Dementieva
Aces	10	3
Double faults	0	8
First serve %	53	57
First serve points won %	78	52
Second serve points won %	45	53
Break points saved %	67	60
Break points converted %	40	33
Service points won %	63	53
Return points won %	47	37
Total points won %	55	45

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Serena Williams	Elena Dementieva
Country	USA	RUS
Birth date	Sep 26, 1981	Oct 14, 1981
Age	27	27
Height	175	180
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	2	4
Ranking points (entering)	7,932	7,596
Elo (entering)	2,128	2,097
Career W-L	825–170	472–243
Career earnings	$94,932,862	$14,867,437

Pre-match H2H

Serena Williams 4 – 2 Elena Dementieva

Path

Serena Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 29, 2009	QF	Svetlana Kuznetsova	5-7 7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 27, 2009	R16	Victoria Azarenka	3-6 4-2 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2009	R32	Shuai Peng	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2009	R64	Gisela Dulko	6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 21, 2009	R128	Meng Yuan	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Serena Williams's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 31, 2009	F	Dinara Safina	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Elena Dementieva's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 29, 2009	QF	Carla Suárez Navarro	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 27, 2009	R16	Dominika Cibulkova	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2009	R32	Samantha Stosur	7-6(6) 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2009	R64	Iveta Benesova	6-4 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 21, 2009	R128	Kristina Barrois	7-6(4) 2-6 6-1	W	H2H	Match data