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Serena Williams #2 def. Venus Williams #17

6-4 6-4

Match Information

Date	Jan 29, 2017*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Serena Williams
Score	6-4 6-4
Loser	Venus Williams

Stat	Serena Williams	Venus Williams
Aces	10	7
Double faults	5	3
First serve %	61	69
First serve points won %	76	67
Second serve points won %	46	29
Break points saved %	33	64
Break points converted %	36	67
Service points won %	64	55
Return points won %	45	36
Total points won %	54	46

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Serena Williams	Venus Williams
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Sep 26, 1981	Jun 17, 1980
Age	35	36
Height	175	185
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	2	17
Ranking points (entering)	7,080	2,240
Elo (entering)	2,167	1,869
Career W-L	825–170	768–288
Career earnings	$94,932,862	$43,095,580

Pre-match H2H

Serena Williams 16 – 11 Venus Williams

Path

Serena Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 28, 2017	SF	Mirjana Lucic-Baroni	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 26, 2017	QF	Johanna Konta	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2017	R16	Barbora Strycova	7-5 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2017	R32	Nicole Gibbs	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2017	R64	Lucie Safarova	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2017	R128	Belinda Bencic	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data

Serena Williams's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 28, 2017	SF	Coco Vandeweghe	6-7(3) 6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 26, 2017	QF	Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova	6-4 7-6(3)	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2017	R16	Mona Barthel	6-3 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2017	R32	Yingying Duan	6-1 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2017	R64	Stefanie Voegele	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 18, 2017	R128	Kateryna Baindl	7-6(5) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data