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Schiavone defeated Venus 7-5, 7-3, then countered a strong comeback from Serena to defeat the younger sibling 7-3, 10-8, 8-6.

Flavia Pennetta also beat Venus, whose strap broke on her dress before a sellout crowd of 11,000. Pennetta lost to Serena.

Defending champion Serena Williams and sister Venus lose their fourth round matches at Wimbledon to Marion Bartoli and Tsvetana Pironkova respectively.

World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki is looking to win her first grand slam crown. Maria Sharapova, one of her predecessors as the top women's tennis player, is returning to the scene of her breakthrough title.

Without the Williams sisters and playing two teenagers, the United States is on the verge of being relegated from the World Group for the first time after losing both singles matches to Germany in the Fed Cup playoffs on Saturday.

Serena Williams beat Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-1. The Williams sisters held court at the Australian Open on Thursday, a back-to-back Venus-Serena doubleheader that left the siblings still in the mix for yet another Grand Slam singles title.

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