In what was her initial slam final, the 22-year-old Belarussian recovered from a nervous begin to storm to a powerful victory and can currently take over the planet No1 ranking from Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki.
"The best feeling, for sure," Azarenka said. "I do not know regarding the sport. i do not recognize what i used to be doing out there. It's simply pure joy what happened. i can not believe it's over."
Azarenka matched the serious hitting of Sharapova from the baseline and, when she got the prospect, her bigger selection proved the crucial distinction. Having started nervously with 2 double faults in her initial service game, she hit back brilliantly and from 3-3, she won 9 straight games.
As a spectacle, it had been invariably attending to struggle to match the drama of the 2 previous nights when initial, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, and then Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray combined for 2 outstanding semi-finals.
It had been billed as a battle of the screamers and therefore the 2 girls did not disappoint because the noise level reached ninety four.3 decibels in line with the Whoo-ometer of native broadcaster Channel seven. however it had been additionally a world No1 decider and, having won 3 grand slam titles, Sharapova's bigger expertise was thought seemingly to be the distinction. As at Wimbledon last summer, however, when overwhelmed by another grand slam final debutant, Petra Kvitova, she was outplayed on the large occasion.
The Russian's gameplan was to drag the trigger as early as attainable except for once her radar was off, with thirty unforced errors flying off her racket.
Having stormed to a 5-0 lead within the second, the sole concern was if Azarenka's nerve would hold however she was flawless in saving an occasion purpose to serve out and clinch the most important victory of her life.
Sharapova was gracious in defeat. "She did everything higher than I did nowadays," the Russian admitted. "I had a decent initial number of games, which was regarding it.
"I was invariably the one running around sort of a rabbit, you know, attempting to play catch-up all the time. As in any sport, you have got your sensible days, you have got your powerful days and you have got days where things simply do not total."
