Serena in the final of the warm-up to the Australian is not surprising because she reached 13 WTA tour finals in her 78-4 season last year and has not lost a WTA tour level match since August 2013 (to Azarenka, in a 3rd set tiebreak in the finals of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, which I included at #4 on my Top 10 list of best women's tennis matches of 2013).
However, that Venus is in the final is quite surprising since she last reached a final when she won her 44th career title in October 2012 in Luxembourg. The head-to-head between Ivanovic and Venus is 8-1 in favor of Venus, so I would give her a very good shot to start of 2014 with a title.
Serena leads Vika 13-3 in their career head-to-head but the two split their four meetings last year, with Vika being the only person to beat Serena twice in several years.
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