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Serena beats Azarenka for US Open title

NEW YORK (AFP)

Serena Williams captured her 15th Grand Slam title and fourth career US Open crown with a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 victory over World No. 1 Victoria Azarenka on Sunday.

In the first three-set final at the US Open since 1995, US fourth seed Williams joined her sister Venus and Steffi Graf as the only women to win Wimbledon, the Olympics and the US Open in the same year.

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