Serena Williams needed only 59 minutes to defeat Dinara Safina 6-0 6-3 and to win her fourth Australian Open title and a return to the No. 1 ranking!

She won 2 million Australian dollars and join an elite club of players to have won at least 10 grand slam singles titles.

"That's just uber-cool," she grinned. "When I think of these greats I don't necessarily think of my name, I think of them."


"I am so excited I feel like I want to talk forever," she giggled to the crowd before posing with the trophy for photographers and holding her finger up to denote number one.


Safina looked nothing like the player who won four titles and the Beijing Olympics silver medal last year.

"I didn't spend one hour on the court... I was just a ball boy on the court today," said Safina.

"She played exactly the way she had to play and she was much more aggressive and she just was taking time out of me. She didn't even let me to come into the match.

"She's aggressive. It's not that you doubt yourself but she pushes you to go a little bit for more because you don't want to give her any easy ball because you know that she will go for it.

"Either she makes it or misses, but most of the time she makes it."



(photo/Mark Baker, Rick Stevens/AP Photo, Reuters Pictures)

Serena Williams wins 4th Australian Open title!