Maria Sharapova beats Sabine Lisicki, will face Petra Kvitova in Wimbledon final

WIMBLEDON, England — The women’s final at Wimbledon Saturday will lack the world’s No. 1 player, Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki, reduced to a competitive footnote by her early ouster. It will also lack Venus and Serena Williams, Wimbledon victors nine of the last 11 years but too rusty, given illness and injury, to seriously contend. But with 2004 champion Maria Sharapova and rising star Petra Kvitova pummeling their respective seminal opponents Thursday, the looming women’s final, according to nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova, will deliver “big-babe tennis”—powerful hitting by powerful athletes who relish competition rather than shrink from it. Read full article >>

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