– the Forthcoming meeting becomes the sixth Serena Williams in opposition and Angelika Kerber. Five of previous to six came to the end with a victory of the American. All matches passed on a hard.
– the Only victory Kerber took place in a tournament quarterfinal in Cincinnati-2012 (6:4, 6:4).
– their only meeting on majors fell on the first circle of US Open-2007. Serena – 6:3, 7:5 got the best. That match became the first in their opposition.
– Kerber and Williams before only time met in a match for a title: in the final of Stenforda-2014 where Serena (7:6, 6:3) won.
– Serena won six victories in seven matches on "Helmets" against tennis-players from Germany. Only Sabina Lisitski managed to change Williams Jr. in the fourth round of Wimbledon-2013 (6:2, 1:6, 6:4).
– Kerber won seven last matches against Americans. The last failure is dated March, 2015 when Angelika conceded in two sets Sloan Stephens to Indian Wells.
Serena Williams (the USA, 1)
– the Victory in Melbourne will bring number of the won majors of Serena to the 22nd, and it will be made even to the most titled tennis-player of an open era Steffi Graf.
– Only Margaret Kort won more "Helmets" in the single female category – 24 (13 – during the Amateur era, 11 – during the Open era).
– Serena already owns a record on number of victories on Australian Open in the Open era and can win the seventh title in Melbourne.
– For all history only Margaret Kort won the Open championship of Australia more often – 11 (7 – during the Amateur era, 4 – during the Open era).
– Williams can become the fourth woman in the Open era winning one "Helmet" not less than seven times after Chris Evert (7 victories on "Roland Garros"), Martina Navratilova (9 victories on US Open) and Steffi Graf (7 victories on Wimbledon).
– Since Wimbledon-2012, Serena won all eight finals of majors in which participated that is the longest series in the Open era among men and women. The last defeat over the American was inflicted by Samantha Stosur in US Open-2011 final.
– Serena will play p at least in one final of the major the tenth year in a row. Before only three tennis-players gave out a similar series: Evert (14, 1973-1986), Navratilova (11, 1981-1991) and Graf (10, 1987-1996).
Angelika Kerber (Germany, 7)
– Kerber for the first time reached the final of tournament of "Grand Slam".
– After Angelika's victory in a semi-final all tennis-players from Top-10 of the current rating have at least one final of the major behind a shoulder.
– Kerber became the sixth finalist of "Helmets" from Germany. Before the decisive match was reached Steffi Graf (31 finals), by Helge Nissen-Mastkhoff, Silvia Hanika, Anke Huber and Sabina Lisitski (on one final).
– Also Angelika can become the second German, won the major after Graf.
– the Last German reaching the final of Australian Open, was Huber in 1996.
– the Last seventh racket of the world winning on Australian Open.
– Angelika never beat an operating first racket of the world.
– the German can become the fourth tennis-player who has beaten Serena in the final of the major after
– Kerber before reached the finals of the Australian tournaments twice and both lost: To Tsvetana Pironkova in Sydney (2014) and Victoria Azarenka in Brisbane (2016).