Serena Williams needed to defeat a tenacious exertion from Madison Keys to win the principal all-American ladies' visit last for a long time in straight sets and lift the Italian Open title in Rome on Sunday.
The world's best player showed her availability to start the protection of her French Open title one weekend from now with a 7-6(5) 6-3 win however was so awed with her 21-year-old countryman that she anticipated Keys could turn into a future world number one.
It was Williams' fourth title triumph in Rome in 14 years, her 70th vocation title in all and her first since winning in Cincinnati nine months back.
The 34-year-old awesome has looked more defenseless generally, losing in the semi-finals finally year's U.S. Open and last at the Australian Open and Indian Wells this season.
However despite the fact that this was her first claycourt appearance of the season, it was sufficient to affirm she is fit as a fiddle for Roland Garros, with a lot of room likewise for development.
For Keys, it was real leap forward to achieve just her third last and the adolescent gave her rival enough inconvenience for Williams to advise her a while later: "I'm so pleased with you. You can get to world number one."
Keys softened Williams' serve up the opening amusement and, ready to coordinate the world number one for force, she pushed the top seed into a tiebreak in the primary set before succumbing.
Despite the fact that Williams looked somewhat corroded now and again and was not exactly taking care of business, regardless she took control in the second set to wrap up triumph following one hour and 24 minutes.
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