Sports | tennis Serena Reaches Third Straight Final Williams beats Cornet in straight sets for her 14th win in a row By Mitch Pritchard Posted Apr 19, 2008 5:01 PM CDT Copied Alize Cornet, of France, hits a shot during her 7-5, 6-3 loss to Serena Williams, of the United States, today. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney) Serena Williams reached her third consecutive final and won her 14th straight match when she beat Alize Cornet of France 7-5, 6-3 at the Family Circle Cup today. In tomorrow's final, she faces the winner of an all-Russian semifinal between No. 4 Elena Dementieva and No. 9 Vera Zvonareva. Fifth-seeded Williams rallied from 4-1 down against the unseeded Cornet in the semifinals. Williams broke Cornet twice at love before taking the set. In a second set featuring long baseline rallies, Williams broke Cornet in the eighth game, then held serve at love to take the match. "In just the whole match I thought she played really well, and I just wasn't playing my game," Williams said. Cornet, an 18-year-old ranked No. 40, also made the semifinals at Amelia Island last week. Read These Next Epstein fallout intensifies within Trump administration. Newsom turns nickname back on Trump. Surgical staff squares off with ICE agents. FBI offers $50K reward after raid on farm. Report an error