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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Serena Williams (top) defeated Dominika Cibulkova 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 Monday. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Serena Williams came out heavy-footed and flat in her fourth round match against Dominika Cibulkova at the Sony Open Monday and found herself down 6-2, 4-1 to the diminutive and talented Slovakian before quickly rebounding to win 11 of the last 13 games and prevail 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Through the first set, Serena hit 18 unforced errors to a mere two winners and her serves were clocking well below 90 mph. This from a player who can regularly serve over 115mph and usually has at least two winners before the end of the first game of the match? Something was up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Mentally I was just fried and I was just\u00A0thinking about everything but tennis,\" Serena told reporters. \"Then I just had to pull myself back\u00A0together.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She spent the first set of the match struggling with an internal dialogue -- literally. Asked if there are \"two Serenas\" sometimes, she said yes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I'm talking to myself inside and she's talking back and giving me lip. I give her a little attitude, and then I tell her\u00A0she sucks and she tells me to shut up. We get\u00A0into it a little bit,\" she said with a laugh. \"Then we get along.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once she settled down into the match, the comeback was perfunctory. We've seen this happen frequently with Serena, whose high octane game can erase a slow start in a flash. According to the WTA's stats guru, Kevin Fischer, Serena is 21-20 since 2009\u00A0when losing the first set.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/Kfish_WTA/status/316266336789622784\n\"I've been down worse. It's nothing\u00A0new. Just keep fighting. I never give up.\u00A0Doesn't matter whether it's in life or on the\u00A0tennis court, I keep fighting. That's what I kept\u00A0doing today.\"&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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