Serena Backs Up Her Trash Talk With Results

On Tuesday in Cincinatti, OH 7-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams easily beat 2004 French Open champion Anastasia Myskina 6-2, 6-2 in her first match on the WTA Tour in over 6 months! This is quite an impressive result after such an extended time off (she hadn't played a match since January). In addition, she served a 127-mph serve during the match, which would have tied her sister Venus Williams 8-year-old tour record if Brenda Shultz-McCarthy hadn't served a 130-mph serve on saturday while losing a qualifying match for the Tier III Western & Southern Financial Open Serena is playing in! 35-year old Shultz-Mcarthy will now re-gain the fastest women's serve record she had lost from an 18-year old Venus in 1998.

I previously noted Serena's trash talk before her return to the tour last week but it looks like she is backing it up. Although she is current ranked 139, she will clearly be back in the Top 10 by the end of the year. The US Open Series just got a lotmore interesting!