Sara Errani insisted she had enjoyed her 6-0, 6-1 French Open humiliation at the hands of Serena Williams despite her brutal 46-minute capitulation.
World number one Williams reached her second Roland Garros final, where she’ll face defending champion Maria Sharapova, with an awesome display of hitting power which saw her fire 40 winners past the Italian.
“I enjoyed it,” said 26-year-old Errani, the fifth seed who had made the final last year.
“It was a great court, great weather. What she did today was unbelievable. She is so strong and is an unbelievable player.”
The result was the most one-sided semi-final defeat at Roland Garros since Chris Evert beat Francoise Durr 6-1, 6-0 in 1973.
Evert’s 6-0, 6-0 mauling of Camille Benjamin in 1984 remains the worst hammering ever handed out in a Roland Garros semi-final.
Errani, who has now lost all six matches she has played against the American, won just five points on the Williams serve and hit only two, lonely winners.
“It was a great day. I tried but that’s sport. Sometimes you lose, but you have to stay in there and try until the last point. I gave it my all, but there was nothing I could do.”
The pint-sized Italian, who stands at just 1.64m and weighs in at a slender 60kg, had no response to Williams, who employed all of her 1.75m and 70kg to swat her opponent.
Not that Errani, the world’s top doubles player, has given up hope of ever defeating the world number one.
“If she has a bad day, I can beat her,” she said.
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