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Article: Australian open winner williams on her way to the dubai tennis championships.(Dubai Tennis Championships )
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- January 29, 2007
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The Dubai Tennis Championships has received a further boost to an already outstanding field of players after Australian Open winner Serena Williams announced that she will make a second bid to claim one of the few titles missing from her bulging portfolio.
The American tennis superstar, who on Saturday overwhelmed Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-2 to win her third Australian Open crown, is still searching for her first Dubai title. She reached the semi-finals in 2005 before retiring against Jelena Jankovic with an injury, and injury also prevented her from competing in Dubai in 2006.
Now fully fit again, Williams confounded critics that had written her off as she ...