Serena Thrashes Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 to Win Olympic Gold

United State’s Serena Williams won the Olympic gold medal in women tennis singles event on Saturday, destroying Russia’s Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1in a very one-sided final match.

In a match that lasted 62 minutes, Williams outplayed, out-powered Sharapova winning the first nine games before Sharapova could managed to take a game. This is Serena’s first Olympic singles medal; she has won two doubles titles at the Olympics with older sister Venus.

Top-seeded Belarus’s Victoria Azarenka took the bronze medal defeating No.14-seeded Maria Kirilenko of Russia 6-3, 6-4.