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Serena Williams awoke on Thursday dreading playing tennis. Following the worst beating of her professional career on Wednesday, when she won only two games against Simona Halep, it took hours of cajoling and encouragement from coach Patrick Mouratoglou to get Williams in the right frame of mind for her last round-robin contest against Eugenie Bouchard. Whatever he said worked, as she routed Bouchard 6-1, 6-1. ''I definitely don't think that I would have been able to survive today if it wasn't for Patrick.'' Williams improved her record to 2-1, and will have to wait until Friday's match between Halep and Ana Ivanovic to know if she is through to the semifinals.
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