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VIDEO: Serena waves off camera during changeover vs. Mattek-Sands

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At the most buzzed-about tournament of her historic career, Serena Williams has had plenty to distract her.

And she's shown her nerves in the face of it all - the hype, the expectation, the pressure - as she tries to become the first woman since Steffi Graf in 1988 to complete the calendar Grand Slam. After dropping the first set in her third-round US Open match against upstart Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Serena wouldn't abide another diversion.

But she was plenty polite in waving off an encroaching camera as she cooled off in her changeover chair.

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Then she went out and won the next two sets, closing the match by bageling Mattek-Sands in the third.

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