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26 January 2013              11:29 GMT

Victoria Azarenka retained her Australian Open title and kept hold of the world number one spot with victory over Li Na in the Melbourne final.

The Belarusian, 23, came back from a set down to win 4-6 6-4 6-3 on a cool and blustery evening on Rod Laver Arena.

In a scrappy match, Azarenka proved the stronger in the closing stages after Li rolled her ankle twice and hit her head in two heavy falls.

Match stats

Azarenka Li
1 Aces 4
78% 1st serves 65%
4 Double faults 5
18 Winners 36
28 Errors 57
54% 1st serve win % 48%
38% 2nd serve win % 42%
54% Receiving pts won 49%
9/12 Break points 7/18

The victory brought Azarenka her second Grand Slam title after last year’s win at Melbourne Park, and ensured she will not be overtaken by Serena Williams in the next world rankings.

However, it was the 30-year-old Li who carried most of the support throughout the final, due in part to Azarenka’s controversial medical timeout in her semi-final against Sloane Stephens.

Azarenka had been accused of gamesmanship, despite later insisting the timeout had been necessary because of breathing difficulties.

Either way, the negative attention she garnered in the build-up only added to the support for the already popular Li.

“Unfortunately, you have to go through some rough patches to achieve great things,” said Azarenka. “That’s what makes it so special for me. I went through that, and I’m still able to kiss that beautiful trophy.”

China’s Li, the 2011 French Open champion, had marginally the better of a desperately scrappy first set of 32 errors and 16 winners between the pair.

Li was much the more effective on the return and after recovering from 5-2 down to 5-4, Azarenka double-faulted on set point, summing up her evening to that point.

A few calls from the boisterous Australia Day crowd probably did not help, although at times it appeared that Li was as distracted by her own vociferous supporters.

Azarenka made a strong start to the second set with a double break as Li’s famously unreliable radar went haywire, but the sixth seed was battling back at 3-2 down when she suffered a fall.

“Victoria Azarenka is a warrior. It has been very rough for her, but it has been a tremendous effort tonight. It has been very gutsy. It has not been the best quality match, but it was enthralling.”

She hobbled back to the chair and took a medical timeout of her own to get her left ankle taped, leaving Azarenka to don her tracksuit top and practise a few serves.

It looked as though the timeout had worked against Azarenka this time when Li came out firing with five points in a row, but the top seed clung on from 0-40 to stay ahead.

Li then offered up four errors in a row to give Azarenka the break at 5-4, and she closed out the set to force a decider.

After breaks were swapped at the start, Li looked to be regaining some sort of control at 2-1 up only to be interrupted for nine minutes by the annual Australia Day fireworks display.

Disaster struck on the resumption, when Li crashed to the ground during the first point and rolled the same ankle, before cracking her head on the court as she fell.

The sixth seed looked dazed, although she did manage a thin smile when her face appeared on the big screen, but she needed another timeout, and again Azarenka went through an unexpected practice routine.

Li resumed firing forehands but Azarenka held on to her serve at 2-2 and then got the decisive break in game five, hanging on to it when Li squandered a break point at 4-3 down.

After struggling to hold on to her serve in the early stages, Azarenka was now attacking her opponent’s with similar gusto.

The world number one avoided having to serve out when Li floated a forehand long on championship point, the Belarusian dropping her racquet and burying her face in her hands in celebration.

“I will always keep a very special memory of this court and you will be in my heart forever,” Azarenka told the crowd in her post-match on-court interview.

Li admitted the better player had won, but joked:  “Without falling down I was feeling pretty good.

“It was a very tough match. She’s number one, defending champion. I think today in the important games she was playing better than me, so that’s why she can win the title.”

from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/21211185

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Azar natal chart

 

[Neptune conjunct Saturn in Capricorn]

 

Victoria Azarenka was born on July 31st, 1989 (time of birth unknown) in Minsk, Belarus according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Azarenka

July 31st, 1989

7 + 31 +1+9+8+9 = 65 = her life lesson = Worldly success.  Making it big time.  On top of the world.

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July 31st, 1989

July 31st

7 + 31 +2+0+1+2 = 43 = her personal year (from July 31st, 2012 to July 30th, 2013) = Congratulations.  Celebrating.  Fun times.  Enjoying herself.

Three of Cups Tarot card

43 year + 1 (January) = 44 = her personal month (from January 31st, 2013 to February 28th, 2013) = Current status.  Stay tuned for updates.  Twitter.  Tweeting.  Tweets.

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Each letter of the first name rules 9 years of life.  Ages 0 to 27 are ruled by the sum of the first three letters of the name.

Victoria Azarenka

22 (V is the 22nd letter of the alphabet) + 9 (i is the 9th letter of the alphabet) + 3 (c is the 3rd letter of the alphabet) = 34

So the number 34 rules her first twenty-seven years of life.

34 = Generating a buzz.  Red hot.  Smokin’ hot.  On fire.  Hottie.

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using the number/letter grid:

 
1      2      3       4       5       6      7      8      9
A      B     C       D       E       F      G      H      I
J      K      L      M      N       O      P      Q      R
S      T      U      V      W      X      Y      Z

Where:

A = 1              J = 1              S = 1

B = 2              K = 2             T = 2

C = 3              L = 3             U = 3

D = 4              M = 4            V = 4

E = 5              N = 5            W = 5

F = 6              O = 6             X = 6

G = 7              P = 7             Y = 7

H = 8              Q = 8             Z = 8

I = 9               R = 9

 

 

Victoria Azarenka

49326991 18195521                   75

 

her path of destiny = 75 = Patience is a virtue.  Rome was not built in a day.  Reaping what she has sown.

Seven of Pentacles Tarot card

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Victoria Azarenka of Belarus collapsed at the United States Open while trailing Gisela Dulko of Argentina, 5-1, in the first set. She was taken off the court in a wheelchair.Victoria Azarenka at the 2009 US Open 01.jpg

September 1, 2010, 12:31 pm

3:24 p.m. | Updated
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus collapsed in her second-round match at the United States Open on Wednesday, barely a half-hour into her match against Gisela Dulko of Argentina. She was taken to a local hospital, the United States Tennis Association said, after being taken off the court in a wheelchair. Tournament referee Brian Earley said no further details on her condition were available, but said, “We can say that this does not seem to be primarily a heat-related illness.”

Azarenka, the No. 10 seed, was visibly struggling as the match got underway, an early hint that her troubles did not stem from the heat. The tournament heat rules were in effect because the temperatures topped 90, but the match had hardly progressed when Azarenka showed signs of illness.

Playing listlessly and trailing, 0-4, Azarenka threw the ball up for a serve and missed it entirely. She actually won that game, but during the next changeover, she slumped forward over her legs in the chair. Trailing, 1-5, she hit a backhand return to Dulko, then turned toward the center of the court and slumped to the ground. Trainers ran to her aid and she was taken off the court immediately.

Azarenka, 21, also struggled during the 2009 Australian Open, which was also played in hot conditions. She retired in a fourth-round match against Serena Williams after she vomited during the match. Azarenka said was told it was a virus, but it was widely reported as heat-related. Azarenka, though, is no stranger to heat. She lives in Scottsdale, Ariz.

from:  http://straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/victoria-azarenka-collapses-during-match/

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Up went her service toss at the United States Open, and Victoria Azarenka, already wobbly on her feet and down, 0-4, took a swing and missed completely, the ball bouncing off her back before landing on the steamy surface of the Grandstand Court.

It was the clearest sign yet that something was seriously amiss with Azarenka, the big-hitting No. 10 seed from Belarus, and though she somehow managed to hold her serve and play on, she collapsed on the court in the seventh game after staggering to hit a backhand.

A trainer quickly reached her as she lay on her side, and other medical personnel soon followed along with Azarenka’s opponent in this second-round match, Gisela Dulko of Argentina, who crossed to Azarenka’s side of the court to offer assistance.

Azarenka was eventually helped into a wheelchair and transported off the court, and Dulko was left with a bittersweet victory because of Azarenka’s retirement.

“It’s a strange, bad feeling,” Dulko said. “In one way, it’s great to get to the third round. In another way, it was not a nice way to win. I really hope she’s O.K. because it looked ugly out there.”

Though this has been one of the hottest first weeks at the United States Open in memory — with temperatures soaring above 90 degrees on Monday, Tuesday and again on Wednesday — it was unclear whether Azarenka’s problem was related to the heat.

The match lasted only 30 minutes, and she looked out of sorts in the very early going. She was clearly dizzy long before she collapsed and, after holding serve to trail, 1-4, she leaned forward on her chair on the changeover and remained hunched over before returning slowly to the court.

“Of course, I saw she was taking a lot of time to serve, and a lot of time between points, so I knew she was in some trouble,” said Dulko, who said she was frightened when she saw Azarenka fall.

At the 2009 Australian Open, Azarenka retired in similar circumstances, although in cooler conditions, from her fourth-round match with Serena Williams. Azarenka won the first set against Williams but took a medical timeout and left the arena in the second set. She ended up disoriented and in tears before retiring and being helped from the court by two trainers.

After being treated on Wednesday, she was transported out of the medical area at the Grandstand on a gurney and down a corridor filled with fans, with a security guard saying, “No pictures.”

United States Open officials did not immediately confirm the reasons for Azarenka’s retirement, although they did confirm she had been taken to a local hospital. But in light of the heat wave in New York, which is not expected to break until Friday, the veteran coach Sven Groeneveld said he expected that Azarenka’s retirement would not be the last.

“I think we’re going to see more of it,” he said. “It’s a cumulative effect. The players need to be more careful.”

“They’ve already had four to five weeks of tennis over here in tough conditions,” Groeneveld added. “Now getting here with several days in a row of heat. Get ready for some more damage.”

Still, there was only one retirement in Tuesday’s singles matches, although many players, including No. 3 men’s seed Novak Djokovic, were clearly laboring in the conditions. Djokovic, who has a history of struggling in the heat, prevailed against his fellow Serb Viktor Troicki in five sets on Arthur Ashe Stadium, where on-court temperatures approached 110 degrees.

“It was just very hot, it’s the same for everybody,” Djokovic said. “That’s all basically I can say. The heat issues is something that, you know, it’s just there. You cannot affect it. The weather is weather. You just have to try to be patient and wait for the shadows, like I did.”

But there was not yet any shade on the court when Djokovic saved two break points to avoid going down, 0-3, in the fourth set. (He was down, two sets to one.)

“Look, I’ve been in those situations before, played a lot of long matches in very difficult conditions, feeling very exhausted,” Djokovic said. “You kind of start panicking a little bit when you don’t feel great physically. Then your opponent takes the advantage, and it’s not easy. Definitely those moments are very challenging for an athlete, but I overcame it once again and this is what matters most to me.”

As sultry as it has been in New York, this tournament has still not arrived at the extremes sometimes experienced at the Australian Open, the year’s first Grand Slam event. That tournament is the endurance test long associated with Ivan Lendl’s legionnaire’s cap, the place where on-court temperatures in some matches have soared above 140 degrees; the place where Martina Hingis and Jennifer Capriati once staggered through an oven-roasted 2002 women’s final, ultimately won by Capriati after both women ending up lying side by side packed in ice in the training room during a mandatory heat break.

“Well, it’s pretty similar here, but I think Australia maybe can be hotter,” Dulko said. “But you know, we’ve been playing in Cincinnati before this and it was hot as well. I think we are all used to playing in these conditions once in a while during the year. Obviously it’s tough. It’s not the perfect conditions to play tennis, but you have to get used to it.”

from:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/sports/tennis/02collapse.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Victoria Azarenka was born on July 31st, 1989 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Azarenka

July 31st

7 + 31 +2+0+1+0 = 41 = her personal year (from July 31st, 2010 to July 30th, 2011) = It looked ugly.

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