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Katy will be here shortly to guide you through today’s final in Melbourne, but if you arrive before her, here is a taster ahead of the match…

If Victoria Azarenka is nervous about appearing in her first grand slam final here on Saturday, she is doing a pretty good job of hiding it. Her match with Maria Sharapova is no contest in terms of experience – the Russian won Wimbledon as a 17-year-old and has added two more grand slam titles since – but Azarenka is a confident young woman who believes she is ready to break through. And that is half the battle.

“I have worked hard to be in this situation, so why stress about it?,” she said on Friday. “I want it and that’s what I’m looking for so I’m just going to go out there and try to do my best.”

It is an attitude that bodes well for the biggest match of her career. As recently as a year ago, the Belarussian was prone to losing her rag on court and occasionally behaving like a prima donna off it. Now, she is learning to relax and the results are coming. After her hard-earned three-set victory over the defending champion Kim Clijsters in the semi-final, she joked with the crowd that most of them “probably thought she was a mental case”.

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