Serena Williams def. Dinara Safina, 2009 Australian Open Final

Match Information

Date: Jan 31, 2009*
Tournament: Australian Open
Edition: 2009
Category: Grand Slam
Surface: Hard
Round: F

Match Statistics

Stat	Serena Williams	Dinara Safina
Serving
Aces Serves that land in and are not touched by the returner.	4	3
Double faults Service points lost by missing both first and second serve.	0	5
First serve % Percentage of service points where the first serve landed in.	56.8%	59.2%
First serve points won % Percentage of points won after making a first serve.	95.2%	51.7%
Second serve points won % Percentage of second-serve points won, including points lost through double faults.	62.5%	30.0%
Break points saved % Percentage of break points won by the server.	0.0%	16.7%
Service points won % Percentage of all points won while serving.	81.1%	42.9%
Returning
Break points converted % Percentage of break-point chances won by the returner.	83.3%	100.0%
Return points won % Percentage of all points won while returning.	57.1%	18.9%
Overall
Total points won % Percentage of all completed points won.	67.4%	32.6%
Match Serve+ This match’s service points won percentage minus the tour’s season average, in percentage points. Zero is average; +5 means five points above average. Match-weighted available stats; no opponent adjustment.	+25.3	-13.0
Match Return+ This match’s return points won percentage minus the tour’s season average, in percentage points. Zero is average; +5 means five points above average. Match-weighted available stats; no opponent adjustment.	+12.9	-25.3

* Match Serve+ and Match Return+ compare this match with the WTA 2009 average from available match stats. Zero is average; +5 means five percentage points above average. No opponent adjustment.

Player Comparison

Field	Serena Williams	Dinara Safina
Country	USA	RUS
Birth date	Sep 26, 1981	Apr 27, 1986
Age	27	22
Height	175 cm	182 cm
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	2	3
Ranking points (entering)	7,932	7,754
Elo (entering)	2,158	2,073
Current career W-L	837–172	304–161
Current career earnings	$94,966,162	$10,585,640

Pre-match H2H

Serena Williams #2 5 – 2 Dinara Safina #3

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Path

Serena Williams's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Elena Dementieva #4	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 30, 2009	SF
Svetlana Kuznetsova #8	5-7 7-5 6-1	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 29, 2009	QF
Victoria Azarenka #14	3-6 4-2 (ret.)	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 27, 2009	R16
Shuai Peng #41	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 24, 2009	R32
Gisela Dulko #45	6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 22, 2009	R64
Meng Yuan #123	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 21, 2009	R128

Serena Williams's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Dinara Safina's path

Opponent	Score	W-L	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round
Vera Zvonareva #7	6-3 7-6(4)	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 30, 2009	SF
Jelena Dokic #187	6-4 4-6 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 29, 2009	QF
Alizé Cornet #16	6-2 2-6 7-5	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 27, 2009	R16
Kaia Kanepi #28	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 24, 2009	R32
Ekaterina Makarova #49	6-7(3) 6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 22, 2009	R64
Alla Kudryavtseva #70	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data	Jan 21, 2009	R128