Newsday (N.Y.): Marion Bartoli wins Wimbledon women's crown

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By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON England — It was a mismatch more than a match, a women's final that given all that happened during a strange, bewildering Wimbledon turned out be perfectly imperfect and painfully one-sided.

Marion Bartoli is a champion with a past here, having returned to the All England finals six years after a one-sided defeat, and on a warm Saturday afternoon inflicted her own one-sided defeat on an overwhelmed Sabine Lisicki, 6-1, 6-4. In reverse order those were the same scores Venus Williams defeated Bartoli in the 2007 final.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Marion Bartoli, Sabine Lisicki advance to Wimbledon women's final

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By Art Spander
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WIMBLEDON, England — Marion Bartoli caught up with her past. Agnieszka Radwanska was caught up by the future. So the most unpredictable Wimbledon of recent times will offer a women's final matching a 15th seed against a 23rd seed.

Bartoli, 28, of France, the 15th seed, needed only 62 minutes on a blue-sky day to defeat Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, 6-1, 6-2, in the first semifinal on Centre Court yesterday.

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