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Justine-credible
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Justine Henin-Hardenne produced an incredible performance to defeat Maria
Sharapova 6-2 7-6 in the semi-finals of the WTA Tour Championship in Madrid
on Saturday.

The win cracked Sharapova's 19-game unbeaten run and also ensured that
Henin-Hardenne would finish the season as world number one.

The Belgian's game-plan of implementing a serve and volley tactic at every
possible opportunity seemed to confuse her Russian opponent who never really
settled into things after making a slow start.

Henin-Hardenne played near perfect tennis throughout, always putting
Sharapova under pressure on the Russian's serve, while often breezing through
most her own service games with apparent ease.

Such astounding play as well as some sloppy double faults and long forehands
from Sharapova helped the Belgian to race out to an early 5-1 lead in the
first set.

Then when serving for the set, Henin-Hardenne had her first sloppy game of
the match and Sharapova broke, but in the very next game the Belgian was back
on song as she clinched the set against the serve with a game to 15.

One amazing reaching forehand winner in that game summed up how well
Henin-Hardenne was playing. Keeping the ball in play was impressive enough
but the way she managed to pass it beyond Sharapova who had moved up to the
net was simply spectacular.

The first eight games of the second set then went to serve, but then
Henin-Hardenne broke to make it 5-4 in an epic game where she needed five
break points.

She couldn't close the game out though in the next game, as again the nerves
took hold when the finishing line was in sight, as Sharapova dominated the
game to break back.

The two players then recovered with comfortable service games which ensured a
tie-break, but despite coming back from 4-1 down to 4-4 in that tie-break,
Sharapova was eventually just overwhelmed by Henin-Hardenne's quality, as the
pint sized Belgian took the match 7-5 in the tie-break.

It was a sweet victory for Henin-Hardenne who lost to Sharapova in the US
Open final two months ago, but while she was happy to clinch her end-of-year
number one ranking, she was still keen to stress after the match that the job
had not been finished.

"I'm very happy with the way I played and handled the pressure," she said.

"I was very aggressive, I went to the net a lot, but the tournament is not
over. I don't want to walk away and just feel happy that I finished the
season world number one."

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這個標題真有創意 他今天的表現的確是 Just incredible
很久沒看到他發球這麼猛了 比莎娃還猛 7個ace和許多直接得分
希望明天能有一樣的表現
btw Justine的名字還真好用
長可以拿來放標題作文章～

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