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Samantha Stosur #10 def. Serena Williams #27

6-2 6-3

Match Information

Date	Sep 11, 2011*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Samantha Stosur
Score	6-2 6-3
Loser	Serena Williams

Stat	Samantha Stosur	Serena Williams
Aces	2	5
Double faults	1	2
First serve %	65	52
First serve points won %	73	62
Second serve points won %	62	33
Break points saved %	80	44
Break points converted %	56	20
Service points won %	70	48
Return points won %	52	30
Total points won %	60	40

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Samantha Stosur	Serena Williams
Country	AUS	USA
Birth date	Mar 30, 1984	Sep 26, 1981
Age	27	29
Height	175	175
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	10	27
Ranking points (entering)	3,880	1,780
Elo (entering)	2,008	2,179
Career W-L	451–335	825–170
Career earnings	$20,070,126	$94,932,862

Pre-match H2H

Samantha Stosur 3 – 3 Serena Williams

Path

Samantha Stosur's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 2011	SF	Angelique Kerber	6-3 2-6 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 8, 2011	QF	Vera Zvonareva	6-3 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 2011	R16	Maria Kirilenko	6-2 6-7(15) 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 4, 2011	R32	Nadia Petrova	7-6(5) 6-7(5) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 1, 2011	R64	Coco Vandeweghe	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2011	R128	Sofia Arvidsson	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Samantha Stosur's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Serena Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 10, 2011	SF	Caroline Wozniacki	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 8, 2011	QF	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 2011	R16	Ana Ivanovic	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 4, 2011	R32	Victoria Azarenka	6-1 7-6(5)	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 1, 2011	R64	Michaella Krajicek	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2011	R128	Bojana Jovanovski Petrovic	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data