Victoria Azarenka of Belarus defeated Maria Sharapova of Russia to lift the Australian Open women's title, here on Saturday.
Azarenka won her maiden grand slam title by crushing Sharapova by 6-3, 6-0 margin.
She won the match in just 1 hour and 22 minutes.
Azarenka hit 12 unforced errors in comparison to the 30 unforced errors hit by Sharapova.
The Tennis star from Belarus is now the number 1 ranked women´s player in the world.