By Tennis Guru on Dec 4, 2011 in Featured, Serena Williams, Tennis Feature, Tennis News, Venus Williams | 1 Comment
Multiple Grand Slam-winning sisters Venus and Serena Williams are all set to defend their Olympic tennis doubles titles in London next year. They won the event at the 2000 Sydney and 2008 Beijing Games. They were unable to defend the title at 2004 Athens Games because Serena had a knee injury. “We’re the defending champion [...]
By Tennis Guru on Dec 4, 2011 in Serena Williams, Tennis Feature, Tennis News, Venus Williams | 0 Comments
Venus and Serena Williams participated in a series of exhibition tennis matches in Milan on Saturday against Italian stars Francesca Schiavone and Flavia Pennetta. Both lost their singles matches against Francesca Schiavone before rallying to win their doubles matches. Venus Williams also lost her singles match against Pennetta. However, the latter lost against the younger [...]
By Tennis Guru on Nov 14, 2011 in Tennis Feature, Tennis News, Venus Williams, WTA | 1 Comment
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams said that she’s currently trying out a new diet regimen following the autoimmune disease that kep her mostly out of tennis tournaments this year. She’s optimistic that the new approach will place her back at the top of the WTA tour rankings. Williams is currently in Doha, Qatar for [...]
By Tennis Guru on Sep 14, 2011 in Tennis Feature, Venus Williams | 1 Comment
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams led the 2011 season with the fastest serve among female players. At the 2011 US Open tournament, Williams recorded a speed of 126 MPH. She’s followed by Sabine Lisicki of Germany with 125 MPH at the Stanford tournament. The data is provided by IDS. Here’s the complete top 10 [...]
By Tennis Guru on Sep 1, 2011 in Featured, Tennis Feature, Tennis News, US Open, Venus Williams | 0 Comments
The US Open 2011 Women’s Singles Draw has been littered with upsets in the first round so far, with French Open champion Li Na and Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova crashing out against Romanian opponents. Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters is a no show at Flushing Meadows due to injury. Another huge blow in the draw [...]
By Tennis Guru on Aug 29, 2011 in Serena Williams, Tennis News, Venus Williams | 0 Comments
Sisters Serena and Venus Williams will play an exhibition match this November at Medellin, Colombia. Jhan Fontalvo, the head of the company promoting this highly anticipated event, said that this marks the first time that the high-profile sisters will make an appearance in a South American country. Serena Williams has 13 Grand Slam singles titles [...]
By Tennis Guru on Aug 8, 2011 in Rogers Cup, Tennis News, Venus Williams, WTA | 0 Comments
Venus Williams remains winless at the Rogers Cup. The former world number one has reportedly withdrawn from this week’s Rogers Cup due to illness. Williams arrived late last week to take part at the prestigious hardcourt tournament, to be held this year at Toronto. On Sunday, the 7-time Grand Slam champion went to see a [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jul 29, 2011 in Rogers Cup, Tennis News, Venus Williams | 4 Comments
It’s quite surprising to know that seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams is 0-3 at the prestigious Rogers Cup. Data showed that she’d attended this annual WTA event in Canada three times since 1995. She lost in her singles debut that year and went on to lose in the first round in her next two [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jul 20, 2011 in Serena Williams, Tennis Feature, Venus Williams | 0 Comments
Former world no. 1 and 13-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams has been named as the most popular female athlete in the US for the third straight year based on the data gathered by Harris Interactive. In June 2011, Harris Interactive conducted a poll amongst more than two thousand respondents, asking them for their [...]
By Tennis Guru on Jun 28, 2011 in Tennis Feature, Tennis News, Venus Williams, Wimbledon | 0 Comments
Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams failed to avenge her defeat last year against Tsvetana Pironkova after the latter once again prevailed in their fourth round match in straight sets 6-2, 6-3. Earlier on Monday, Venus’ younger sister Serena crashed out of the tournament after being beaten by Marion Bartoli of France. Both sisters are making [...]
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