Stanford Tennis final: Marion Bartoli stuns Venus

Marion Bartoli of France captures the Stanford tennis trophy WTA Bank of West Classic by winning Venus Williams by 2-6, 7-5, 4-6. French star takes nearly two hours and forty five minutes for winning the match. Bartoli had a wonderful start as lead the first set by breaking the serves of Venus and taking the set by 6-2 in forty minutes. During the second set, she starts a lead by breaking Venus serve. She had chance to end the match in the second set itself when she leads Venus by 5-4 but unfortunately she lost three games continue in a row. In the third set, for first six serves it was 3-3 but in the seventh serve she broke the Venus serve which makes her path to take the trophy. Venus had close contact with Stanford as it was her 7^th final in the last eight visits. After the match, "It was great to play Venus again, I have a lot of good memories from Wimbledon" said by Bartoli. "I had a great tournament," said by disappointed Venus Williams. She added,"But Marion was just too good today." Bartoli was moved up two positions forward to 12th rank for claiming the title on Monday. Venus still remains in the third position next to Dinara Safina and her sister Serena.