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World number one Serena Williams joined an elite club on Saturday, winning her eighth Miami WTA title with a crushing 6-2, 6-0 win over Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro.
The 33-year-old US superstar, who won her 19th grand slam title in Australia this year, lifted the trophy in the elite premier level tournament for the third straight year.
It feels really good to have eight under my belt. I’d like to believe the older I get, the better I get
Serena Williams
She also won three straight Miami titles from 2002-04 and back-to-back titles in 2007-08.
Williams had already surpassed Steffi Graf for most Miami triumphs with her win last year.
On Saturday she joined Graf, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert as the only Open Era players to win the same event at least eight times.
Graf won nine titles in Berlin, Evert won eight in Hilton Head, and Navratilova achieved the feat in seven tournaments, including her nine Wimbledon titles.
“It feels really good to have eight under my belt,” Williams said. "I’d like to believe the older I get, the better I get."
“Can’t say I thought I would win eight, especially in the beginning of the week,” added the champion, who had struggled with her serve and unforced errors in previous matches.
“I had a couple matches where I had nearly 60 unforced errors in both, so I just needed to kind of get my mind back there and say, ’Serena, you normally don’t play like this, so just go to how you normally play’,” she said of how she tried to regroup after clawing past world number three Simona Halep in the semi-finals.
In Suarez Navarro, Williams faced an opponent she had beaten in four prior encounters without dropping a set.
World number 12 Suarez Navarro, playing in the biggest final of her career, wasn’t surprised to find the winners zinging past her from every part of the court.
“When I play with Serena I know that she’s the best,” Suarez Navarro said. ”She has the game to make me play bad.
“But this time I believed in me, in how I’m playing the other matches. I tried. I tried until the last point, but it was tough and difficult for me.”
Suarez Navarro lost her seventh WTA final in eight appearances. But her fine week in Florida, where her victims included Venus Williams, will see her break into the top 10 in the world rankings.


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Serena Williams joins elite club with another Miami crown

Serena Williams poses with the road to Singapore sign post on Crandon Park beach after her straight-sets victory over Carla Suarez Navarro in the Miami Open. Photo: USA Today Sports

Serena Williams with Martina Navratilova as she holds the Butch Bucholz Trophy after beating Carla Suarez Navarro. Photo: AFP

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American becomes the fourth player to win same WTA event at least eight times
