How are Venus and Serena Williams doing in the race for the women’s title ?
Venus Ebony Starr Williams[2] (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on three separate occasions; as of August 24, she is ranked World No. 3. She is the reigning Australian Open and Wimbledon doubles champion and has won 18 Grand Slam titles: seven in women’s singles, nine in women’s doubles and two in mixed doubles. In addition, she has won three Olympic gold medals, one in women’s singles and two in women’s doubles.[3] In 2005 Tennis Magazine ranked her as the 25th-best player in 40 years.[4] Williams reached US Open finals at the age of 17, becoming the first woman since 1978 to reach US Open final on debut and was first unseeded female US Open finalist since 1958. After her breakthrough, Williams breached the top ten on the WTA world rankings for the first time in 1998 when she won Lipton Championships in Miami. Between 2002 and 2001, Williams won four of six Grand Slam she entered. Her
With Kim Clijsters taking a turn at being the latest cannonball in the United States Open — No. 3 Venus Williams the latest to be washed aside in Clijsters’s fourth-round upset — the race for the women’s title is one player from being turned entirely upside down. Serena Williams, the No. 2 seed who makes an argument for being the No. 1 player in the world, stepped into the mayhem Sunday and restored her own world order. She crushed No. 22 Daniela Hantuchova, 6-2, 6-0, with an overpowering game she had left idling in the earlier rounds. That raises questions of just who can beat her when she is fired up and tuned in. She has a 22-1 record in Grand Slam matches this season, a remarkable stretch, even by Williams’s lofty standards. Williams will next play Flavia Pennetta, the hard-charging 10th seed who beat Vera Zvonareva, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-0, in a highly charged night match befitting two players just three spots in the rankings from each other. Pennetta, who this month became the first It
Venus Ebony Starr Williams[2] (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on three separate occasions; as of August 24, she is ranked World No. 3. She is the reigning Australian Open and Wimbledon doubles champion and has won 18 Grand Slam titles: seven in women’s singles, nine in women’s doubles and two in mixed doubles. In addition, she has won three Olympic gold medals, one in women’s singles and two in women’s doubles.[3] In 2005 Tennis Magazine ranked her as the 25th-best player in 40 years.[4] Williams reached US Open finals at the age of 17, becoming the first woman since 1978 to reach US Open final on debut and was first unseeded female US Open finalist since 1958. After her breakthrough, Williams breached the top ten on the WTA world rankings for the first time in 1998 when she won Lipton Championships in Miami. Between 2002 and 2001, Williams won four of six Grand Slam she entered. Her
With Kim Clijsters taking a turn at being the latest cannonball in the United States Open — No. 3 Venus Williams the latest to be washed aside in Clijsters’s fourth-round upset — the race for the women’s title is one player from being turned entirely upside down. Serena Williams, the No. 2 seed who makes an argument for being the No. 1 player in the world, stepped into the mayhem Sunday and restored her own world order. She crushed No. 22 Daniela Hantuchova, 6-2, 6-0, with an overpowering game she had left idling in the earlier rounds. That raises questions of just who can beat her when she is fired up and tuned in. She has a 22-1 record in Grand Slam matches this season, a remarkable stretch, even by Williams’s lofty standards. Williams will next play Flavia Pennetta, the hard-charging 10th seed who beat Vera Zvonareva, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-0, in a highly charged night match befitting two players just three spots in the rankings from each other. Pennetta, who this month became the first It
