Serena has glamour battle with Sharapova

MELBOURNE - Serena Williams served off a glamour Australian Open quarter-final towards arch-rival Maria Sharapova on Sunday when she looks to improve him iron grip around the Russian star.Everyone number one and also defending champion hit deep Margarita Gasparyan 6-2, 6-1 in just 55 time on Rod Laver Arena licensed both the delicious showdown.

Sharapova has the dismal record on never exterminating him nemesis in 17 games dating back 12 many years. The last time she handled a earned remained at both the WTA Tour Championships beneath 2004.

She now offers other chance to eventually feel the monkey away her back on coming via one 7-5, 7-5 thriller towards fast-rising Swiss teen Belinda Bencic.

The Russian scene number 5, that lost to be able to Williams in an Melbourne Park last last year, said she remained always trying to fix and described the losses towards the mighty Western to discuss which she could accomplish better.

"Absolutely. It is not as if I think what I will accomplish worse," she expressed.

"You're always attempting to -- always attempting to fix. I got me into the quarter-final of a Amazing Slam.

"There is actually absolutely no reason I can't remain looking to fix and to experiencing my online game beneath a improve position than other previous round. It is only moving to be able to be even worse, especially against Serena."

One nonchalant Williams, who never appearance beyond him following opponent in the attracted, claimed she didn't know Sharapova remained now along the way on her bid to be able to win a 22nd Amazing Slam and equally Steffi Graf's Open-era report.

"I’ll be happy, she made a affirmative match -- I had no idea I remained playing him (Sharapova) following," she told both the courtside interviewer after taming Gasparyan.

"That will be a good match, I make nothing to be able to give up. We are usually both doing both the best we tend to will. It'll be stimulation."

Wax fourth plant Agnieszka Radwanska faces unseeded German Anna-Lena Friedsam in other fourth-round match then Weekend, while nearby hope Daria Gavrilova is off against Spain's 10th seed Carla Suarez.

Both the winners may perform their quarter-finals upon Tuesday.

- Real deal -

Williams offers been beneath dire form in 2010 on Melbourne Park and also easily swatted aside Gasparyan.

Both the 34-year-old had college other Russian, Daria Kasatkina, in the final round, crushing him in just 44 time, and also handed equal class to the 58th-ranked character in the world.

It remained a sluggish start Williams, who remained failed in both the at first game around the 21-year-old on her competition debut, to gasps on stress from the audience.

But it was one minor blip as the vying seed access him range, for the great Margaret Court in an stadium watching.

This wasn't older Serena but even starting at 50 percent she remained too good with regard to Gasparyan and one rout remained always on both the cards.

Williams won 3 majors -- both the Australian and also French Opens and also Wimbledon -- beneath 2015 which took her to inside one of Graf's long-time report on 22. Court has the all-time Grand Slam report of 24.

Sharapova had one much harder work towards Bencic, the WTA's maximum ranked teenager, that has tried on rising star towards the true deal around the past year, experiencing already win 10 top-10 earneds in him career.

Coached through Melanie Molitor, mother on Martina Hingis, she earneded tournaments beneath Eastbourne and also Toronto in one breakout 2015 and was one major obstacle for that Russian.

But Sharapova -- last teen to earned a Grand Slam brand, aged 19 around the 2006 US Open up -- has and been in amazing touch beneath Melbourne, exactly where she won beneath 2008, and also ultimately him big-match experience proved critical.

"These are both the members that will really take our point," she said of skilled Bencic. "But not just and."