Serena Williams won U.S. Open 2013
defeating Victoria Azarenka
* Top-seeded Serena Williams won her fifth
U.S. Open championship and 17th Grand Slam title overall by beating No. 2
Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-1 in a windy final.
* Sunday's match was the toughest test
these two weeks for the No. 1-seeded Williams, who also beat Azarenka in three
sets in last year's final.
* No woman has ruled any tennis tournament
longer than Serena Williams who, 14 years after she won her first slam title in
New York as an ebullient teenager
* Williams raised her Grand Slam singles
title count to 17, the sixth-most in history and one shy of Martina Navratilova
and Chris Evert.
* Williams collected a $3.6 million prize,
including a $1 million bonus for producing the best results during the North
American summer hard-court circuit leading up to the U.S. Open.
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