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Venus seals first Tour finale win

BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition  Sun, 11/09/2008 - 10:52

Venus Williams beats Vera Zvonareva to win the season-ending Tour Championships for the first time.


 

Venus beats Serena at WTA Championships (AP)

Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Thu, 11/06/2008 - 13:52

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...


 

Venus Williams advances to fourth round

FOXSports.com News  Sat, 06/28/2008 - 08:37

Defending champion Venus Williams has advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon with a 6-1, 7-5 win over Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.

Bidding for a fifth Wimbledon title, Williams dominated the first set Saturday, breaking the No. 101-ranked Martinez Sanchez' serve twice and finishing in 25 minutes.

She had a tougher time in the second set when the Spanish player started to serve and volley.


 

Venus advances to 4th round at Wimbledon (AP)

Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Sat, 06/28/2008 - 08:29

Defending champion Venus Williams has advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon with a 6-1, 7-5 win over Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.

Bidding for a fifth Wimbledon title, Williams dominated the first set Saturday, breaking the No. 101-ranked Martinez Sanchez' serve twice and finishing in 25 minutes.

She had a tougher time in the second set when the Spanish player started to serve and volley.


 

Live - Venus v Keothavong

BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition  Thu, 06/26/2008 - 05:51

Reigning champion Venus Williams takes the first set against British number one Anne Keothavong.


 

Venus starts Wimbledon defense with win (AP)

Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Tue, 06/24/2008 - 08:41

Venus Williams has started her title defense with a 7-6 (5), 6-1 win over British wild card Naomi Cavaday on Centre Court.

The seventh-seeded Williams dropped her opening serve Tuesday and had to force a tiebreaker against the No. 197th-ranked Cavaday.

After holding on in the tiebreaker, Williams dominated the second set to advance to the second round.


 

Venus takes indefinite tennis hiatus (AP)

Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Tue, 04/08/2008 - 18:06

Six-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams will be sidelined indefinitely, though she did not say why she will be out of action.

"I've just been having some issues that I need to resolve, so I'm working on that at the moment and I'm hoping to be back playing as soon as possible," Williams said Tuesday at the Bausch & Lomb Championships.


 

Venus upset in 1st round at Memphis (AP)

Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Tue, 02/26/2008 - 21:45

Top seed and defending champion Venus Williams was upset in the opening round of the WTA's Cellular South Cup Tuesday night by qualifier Petra Kvitova.

The 17-year-old Kvitova won only the fifth WTA Tour match of her career, stunning Williams, the winner of four Wimbledon titles, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

"I am very happy," said Kvitova, of the Czech Republic.