Rod Laver Arena becomes the Shrieking Shack on Saturday night when the game's two loudest grunters, Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova, face off in the 2012 Australian Open final.
The No. 1 ranking will be on the line when the two women take the court at 3:30 a.m. ET on Saturday. It's Sharapova's fifth appearance in a final and Azarenka's first.
They have met six times before, each winning three times. Sharapova and Azarenka have never met in a Grand Slam, meaning this is the first time their 180+ combined decibals are reaching a worldwide audience.
Our friends at Channel 7 in Australia have a brief preview of the one thing everyone will be talking about tomorrow morning. (The report also catches up with Dylan Colaci, the 14-year-old ballboy who became an Internet sensation on Thursday when he used quick hands to catch a ball from Roger Federer.)
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