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The 29-year-old looked defeated after that game as Williams quickly rolled off a love-service game to put her within one game of reaching her ninth Australian Open semi-final.
And Williams didn’t waste any time in taking that opportunity as soon as possible as he broke Halep once again to clinch a famous victory.
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