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MELBOURNE, Australia - Andy Murray has reached the Australian Open final for the fourth time, beating Tomas Berdych in a tension-filled semifinal to earn one more shot at a long elusive title.Serena Williams has five titles from five finals at Melbourne Park, and earned a chance at another one when she advanced to a championship match against Maria Sharapova, who has one Australian title from three trips to the final.Top-ranked Serena Williams beat 19-year-old Madison Keys 7-6 (5), 6-2 in an all-American semifinal Thursday, after Sharapova beat fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova in straight sets.In the night match, sixth-seeded Murray beat No. 7 Berdych 6-7 (6), 6-0, 6-3, 7-5. There was obvious animosity between the players due to a coach switching from the Murray to the Berdych camp.An aggravated Murray bristled when Berdych spoke a few words to him after the first-set tiebreaker, and yelled profanities throughout the match. TV cameras appeared to show his fiancee, Kim Sears, uttering expletives in support.Murray, the former U.S. Open and Wimbledon champion, said the emotional reactions were understandable given the hype leading into the match.Murray has lost three finals at Melbourne Park — to Roger Federer in 2010 and Novak Djokovic in 11 and 13. Hell get a chance to end that streak on Sunday, against either Djokovic or defending champion Stan Wawrinka.Obviously losing in the finals is disappointing. But making four finals is a very, very difficult thing to do, he said. And, yeah, Im proud of my record here. Ill go in with best tactics possible, prepare well — I literally couldnt have done anything more to put myself in a better position come Sunday.Williams has put herself into a prime position. The 18-time Grand Slam champion, who has struggled with a cold for a week, said shed benefit from a tough workout against Keys, who pounded her with heavy groundstrokes and a big serve for the first set.She pushed me really hard the first set ... and I had to really dig deep mentally to get through that, Williams said. It was a little frustrating. I had like nine or 10 match points and couldnt close it out.Keys, playing in her first Grand Slam semifinal, saved seven match points on serve in a penultimate game that lasted more than 11 minutes. Williams kept her cool, though, wasting one match point on her serve before closing with an ace to reach her 23rd major final. Williams was at her best after dropping her opening service game, finishing the match with just one double-fault, firing 13 aces and defending when she needed to defend.Keys had control until she was broken in the sixth game.She held in the 12th game, closing with an ace to force a tiebreaker, but quickly fell behind 4-1 with Serena firing two aces. She saved two set points with aces but had no chance of extending the tiebreaker when Williams hit another unreturnable serve, and started jumping for joy.Williams led 5-1 lead in the second set when Keys held, denying victory for one more game the woman who inspired her to take up tennis.Its been so long since Ive even been in a final here, said the 33-year-old Williams, who will be the oldest woman to play an Australian final in the Open era and will retain top-ranking regardless of the result. My theory now is to relax and play the match as best as I can.Sharapova, who beat No. 10-seeded Makarova 6-3, 6-2, has lost her last 15 matches against Williams. Her only two wins in their 18 career meetings were in 2004.She won the 2008 Australian title, but was comprehensively outplayed in her two other trips to the final — by Williams in 2007 and by Victoria Azarenka in 2012.I think my confidence should be pretty high going into a final of a Grand Slam no matter who Im facing and whether Ive had a terrible record, to say the least, against someone, Sharapova said. It doesnt matter. I got there for a reason. I belong in that spot.The five-time major winner opened the 2015 season in confident style by winning the Brisbane International title but had a close call in the second round here, having to save match points against No. 150-ranked Russian qualifier Alexandra Panova.Its been a strange road for me to get to the finals, but Im happy, Sharapova said. 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Were just overwhelmed and super-excited about winning the national championship, and Im sure itll sink in a little bit more tomorrow.Manitoba never trailed, taking single points in the first two ends, one more in the third and a beautiful chap-and-lie deuce in the sixth to go up 5-2.It wasnt an easy shot, and definitely wasnt easy to look at from the hack, said Kurz of the sixth-end shot. You couldnt see the inside of it, and if its heavy at all, its hanging outside and were not getting our deuce. But I had full confidence in him making that shot— he makes those left, right and centre.Saskatchewan would bounce back with deuces in tthe seventh and ninth ends, sandwiched around a Manitoba single to tie the game.ddddddddddddIn the 10th, though, Hersikorns last-rock draw attempt came up short and Calvert didnt need to throw his final stone.I think being here once and doing it once definitely helped us focus on what we had to do and helped us handle the nerves a bit better, said Calvert. I thought we were a lot more comfortable this year.Calvert defeated Albertas Karsten Sturmay 7-3 on Friday to lock up a berth in the gold-medal game.Earlier today, Hersikorn threw a double-takeout with the last rock of the game in an 8-6 win over New Brunswick in the semifinals.The clutch shot put Saskatchewan in the final against Manitoba.(Hersikorns) made a lot of shots when we got in trouble. He clutched up and made those draws, hits, triples and doubles, just to make everything possible to get us where we are, said Saskatchewan third Cole Tenetuik.Sundays win marked Manitobas third straight Canadian juniors mens gold medal, after Calverts victory last year and Matt Dunstones win in 2013. Calvert and his rink will represent Canada at the upcoming world junior curling championships beginning Feb. 28 in Tallinn, Estonia.Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version misspelled Kyle Kurzs name. 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