Thirteen-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams confirmed via her official Twitter account that she’ll be making her return in WTA competition via the Sony Ericsson Open 2012 tournament in Miami, Florida. While other top WTA stars are competing at the BNP Paribas Open 2012 tournament in Indian Wells, California, Williams is said to be preparing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The list of highest-paid tennis players in the world for the period July 2010 to July 2011 has been released by Forbes.com. According to the list, Swiss tennis star Roger Federer led the pack by amassing $47 million for the aforementioned period. The earnings came from prize money from the ATP tour, endorsements and appearance [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]