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小威挽救三赛点力阻Aza
Serena Williams certainly showed the Power To Inspire at the Mutua Madrid
Open on Wednesday, battling back from triple match point down to survive
Victoria Azarenka.
小威在周三的马德里公开赛中，完全展现了神乎其技，从三个赛末点反击，最终在与
Aza的对战中存活下来。
MADRID, Spain - Serena Williams edged Victoria Azarenka in a marathon to
extend her winning streak to 26 matches and reach the quarterfinals of the
Premier Mandatory-level Mutua Madrid Open.
西班牙马德里 - 小威在延长至26连胜的马拉松中阻止了Aza，并晋级到马德里皇冠赛
的八强。
Though Williams had won 14 of 17 previous meetings against Azarenka, and both
clay court meetings in straight sets, many of them had been close, and this
one was arguably the closest. The pair battled it out for two hours and 43
minutes until Williams finally emerged with the victory, 7-6(5), 3-6, 7-6(1).
尽管小威在过去十七次与Aza的交手中赢了十四场，且两次红土遭遇都以直落二取胜，但
她们仍有许多相当接近的比赛，而这次可能是最接近的，她们一共打了两小时四十三分，
直到小威最终拿下了胜利，76(5) 36 76(1)。
And though she only came away with the middle set, Azarenka could have easily
won any of the other sets - she had a massive 5-1 lead in the first set
tie-break, and she served for the match at 6-5 in the dramatic 69-minute
third and deciding set, even bringing up 40-0 and triple match point in that
game.
尽管Aza只得到第二盘，但她其实都有机会可以轻松拿下其他两盘，她在第一盘抢七曾有
五比一的巨大领先，而且在决胜盘戏剧性的六十九分内一度以六比五掌握发球胜赛局，
甚至她在该局40-0且拥有三个赛末点。
But the No.1-seeded Williams fought them all off, the first one with a
forehand winner, the second one with an unretrievable backhand return and the
third one off an Azarenka double fault. In fact Azarenka double faulted three
times in a row to give Williams the break back, and she cruised from there.
然而头号种子小威战胜了一切，第一个赛末点用正拍化解，第二个赛末点则被一个无法
挽回的反拍回击没收，而第三个赛末点被Aza的双误搞砸了。事实上Aza连续发了三个双
误而被小威破回，她从此崩盘。
Just how close was it? Williams won just one more point than Azarenka in the
match: 113 to 112.
这比赛有多接近？小威总分就只比Aza多一分，113：112。
As mentioned above, Williams extends her winning streak to 26 matches, the
second-longest winning streak of her career - she won 34 in a row in 2013,
ended by Sabine Lisicki in the Wimbledon 16s.
如前所述，小威将她的连胜延伸到了26场，这是她生涯第二长的连胜，她曾经在2013年
连胜三十四场，最终被李司机在温网十六强结束。
She also ties Azarenka for the fourth-longest winning streak of the
millennium - check it out here:
她也追平了Aza所创下的第四长连胜纪录，如下所示：
The Greatest Winning Streaks Of The Millennium
35 - Venus Williams (2000 Wimbledon to 2000 Linz F - l. to Davenport)
34 - Serena Williams (2013 Miami to 2013 Wimbledon 4r - l. to Lisicki)
32 - Justine Henin (2007 Toronto to 2008 Australian Open QFs - l. to
Sharapova)
26 - Victoria Azarenka (2012 Sydney to 2012 Miami QFs - l. to Bartoli)
26 - Serena Williams (2014 WTA Finals RR to present)