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Serena Williams #2 def. Dinara Safina #3

6-0 6-3

Match Information

Date	Jan 31, 2009*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Serena Williams
Score	6-0 6-3
Loser	Dinara Safina

Stat	Serena Williams	Dinara Safina
Aces	4	3
Double faults	0	5
First serve %	57	59
First serve points won %	95	52
Second serve points won %	62	30
Break points saved %	0	17
Break points converted %	83	100
Service points won %	81	43
Return points won %	57	19
Total points won %	67	33

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Serena Williams	Dinara Safina
Country	USA	RUS
Birth date	Sep 26, 1981	Apr 27, 1986
Age	27	22
Height	175	182
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)	2,143	2,063
Career W-L	825–170	299–160
Career earnings	$94,932,862	$10,585,640

Pre-match H2H

Serena Williams 5 – 2 Dinara Safina

Path

Serena Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 30, 2009	SF	Elena Dementieva	6-3 6-4	W	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

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Dinara Safina's path

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