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DOHA, Qatar - Serena Williams and Ana Ivanovic withdrew from the WTA Tour's season-ending event on Friday before their last round-robin matches.

Venus Williams defeated her sister 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 Thursday to reach the semifinals of the WTA Tour's season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships, a match Serena Williams called her worst of the year.

Serena started to unravel early in the second set. "I just couldn't keep a ball in play," she said. "Everything was off." Venus Williams won on her fifth match point, and is 3-0 in round-robin play of a...

Aug 6 - Tennis sisters Venus and Serena Williams arrive in Beijing for the Olympic Games which begin in the Chinese capital on Friday.

Two-time champion Serena Williams has opened her Wimbledon campaign with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Estonia's Kaia Kanepi in the opening match on Court 1.

Williams, whose Wimbledon wins in 2002 and '03 are among her seven major titles, fended off five break point chances in the first set Monday and converted on her only opportunity on set point when French Open quarterfinalist Kanepi double faulted.

Third-seeded Serena Williams clinched the Bangalore Open title by defeating fourth-seeded Patty Schnyder 7-5, 6-3 Sunday.

Williams dominated the final with powerful serves and groundstrokes. Schnyder committed several unforced errors in trying to hit deep and keep Williams at the baseline.

"It's good to be a champ here, it always feels good to win," Williams said. "I did not want to make too many errors.

That was my game plan, but I did not stick to it. "It wasn't my best match.