- Former world No1 will play Naomi Osaka in Saturday’s final
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That’s all for today. Be sure to check back shortly for Tumaini Carayol’s full match report.
“The road to the final, I have to beat the best players and definitely today was that day,” says Azarenka, who hit 25 winners against 18 unforced errors (compared to 35 and 28 for Williams, respectively).
Asked whether she felt nerves at the end of the match playing in the same stadium where she was broken by Williams while serving for the 2012 US Open title, Azarenka is to the point.
