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Fourth-seeded Spaniard beats S. Williams 7-5, 6-4 in Final

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06-05-2016 13:36 BJT

We start things off in Paris with tennis where world number one Serena Williams had another chance to equal Steffi Graf's record of 22 Grand Slam titles when she took on Spain's Garbine Muguruza in the Final of the French Open. After losing the title match at the Australian Open in January, this is Serena's second major final of the year, while for Muguruza, it's the second of her entire career. But after dropping her first set of the tournament, the 22-year-old Spaniard had not lost one since, as she stormed to within one win of her maiden Grand Slam title.

Due to the schedule getting punched back because of rain, the 34-year-old Williams was made to play four straight days heading into the Final.

Muguruza serving and looking to consolidate the break point she earned when Serena double faulted in the previous game. The American trying to dictate play with her powerful ground strokes, but Muguruza is equal to the task, and fires a beautiful forehand winner down the line for a 4-2 lead.

The Spaniard now with set point in the first, and she loads up on a backhand and delivers it with precision to the corner to claim the frame 7-5.

After an exchange of breaks to start the second, Muguruza now leads 3-1. She comes to the net, but Williams has the answer with a fine passing shot as the American pulls it back to 3-2.

Muguruza manages to maintain her lead, and now has championship point, but a huge forehand from Serena ends that chance.

However the Spaniard soon has three more opportunities to end it when she builds a 40-0 lead. She is only able to stab back Serena's backhand, but Williams doesn't get as much as she would have liked on the approach, and Muguruza replies with a lob that just catches the back line. Serena knows it's in, but it takes a second for Muguruza to look to her box to realize she's just won the French Open before crumpling to the court.

7-5, 6-4 is the final score as Muguruza, who beat Williams in the second round here in 2014, does it again to claim her first grand slam title. Williams has now lost back to back Grand Slam Finals for the first time in her career, while Murguruza becomes the first Spanish woman to hoist the Suzanne Lenglen Trophy since Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in 1998.

In the final of the men's doubles, two more Spaniards in the far court, Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez who are not related, would take on Americans Bob and Mike Bryan who very much are. The Spanish duo had never won a Grand Slam before, while the Bryan Twins come in seeking their 17th major title. Feliciano serving on championship point, and the ace down the tee takes it 6-4, 6-7, and 6-3 for the Lopezes, who both fall to the court overcome by the moment, after beating the most successful doubles pairing in Grand Slam history, to win the French Open crown.

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