
"In this tournament, she seems to be in the right mood".
Going a break down elicited a typically angry response from Williams, who surged into a 40-0 lead on Giorgi's serve in the subsequent game.
Rare is the player who can produce Williams' sort of pace on serves - Giorgi's average speeds were actually faster on first and second serves, and she delivered the match's first three aces - and mirror her power in groundstroke exchanges at the baseline.
"Just before the tournament began on Saturday, little Olympia took to her Instagram to share that she was "#Wimbledon ready", to root for her tennis champ mom.
On the day when the final top 10 seed in the women's draw at Wimbledon headed home, Serena Williams secured a quarterfinal spot.
Looking to become the first Italian woman to make the Wimbledon semifinals, Giorgi did not let up, even when the match started to look like it was slipping away. "I think it's a great week". "Just the fewer the better for me!" I feel god, I feel like I did better today, I had to.
The 36-year-old Williams beat her next opponent, Julia Goerges, at the French Open with a fine serving display.
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If her best is anything like we saw Tuesday, it seems like it will be an incredibly hard task for Goerges to pull off the victory.
Williams won Wimbledon on her last two visits in 2015 and 2016 before missing last year's event due to her pregnancy.
Here's the reason Williams has emerged as a favorite: She has seven Wimbledon titles, while the rest of the field has zero.
Goerges turned out to be an unstoppable force as she won eight of the last nine games to subdue her friend, whose lunging effort on match point rolled into the bottom of the net.
But the 29-year-old has erased those painful memories with a superb run, capped by a come from behind success against Bertens in her first Grand Slam quarter-final.
The Canadian rapper, 31, couldn't help but smile as he showed up to another of the icon's grand slam tennis matches, with the star vying for her 24th single Grand Slam title, and her first since welcoming baby daughter Alexis in September.
Because of that, she didn't suffer from much intimidation against Williams in her match. His bucket list items include being serenaded by Lizz Wright, and watching the Knicks play an National Basketball Association game in June.