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* 1942 – Richard Williams, father of Venus Williams and Serena Williams
* 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
* 15-Yetunde Price, 30, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.
* Venus Williams ( born 1980 ), professional tennis player
* June 8 – Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus Williams in straight sets to win the 2002 French Open.
Davenport's next victory on tour was her first Grand Slam singles title at the 1998 US Open, defeating fifth-ranked Venus Williams in the semifinals and top-ranked Hingis in the final.
After Wimbledon, Davenport won the singles and doubles titles in Stanford and won San Diego in doubles with Morariu over Serena and Venus Williams in the final.
Davenport reached the Wimbledon final, where she was beaten by Venus Williams.
Davenport once again lost to Venus in the Stanford final and to Serena Williams in the Los Angeles final.
After losing to Hingis in the Zürich final, Davenport won two consecutive titles in Linz, defeating Venus Williams, and in Philadelphia.
She lost in the Australian Open doubles final with Morariu to Venus and Serena Williams.
Davenport then reached the semifinals of the Tier I San Diego tournament, where she lost to Venus Williams.
She then lost to Venus in New Haven and to Serena Williams in the US Open semifinals.
Davenport and Lisa Raymond reached the doubles semifinals of the Australian Open, where they lost to Serena Williams and Venus Williams.
She defeated Venus and Serena Williams for the first time since 2000, which she said instilled belief in her that she could win more Grand Slam tournaments.
In the quarterfinals of that tournament, Davenport defeated Venus Williams for the fourth consecutive time.
Davenport eventually defeated Mauresmo and faced 14th-seeded Venus Williams in an all-American final.
In 2006, the WTA and players such as Venus Williams pushed for equal prize money to men at both the French Open and Wimbledon.
Both Lleyton Hewitt and Venus Williams were unsuccessful in their title defences, Hewitt being defeated in the semi-finals by Andre Agassi and Venus being defeated in the final by her younger sister Serena.
Venus Williams, 6 – 4, 6 – 3

Venus and titles
Venus was central to many religious festivals, and was venerated in Roman religion under numerous cult titles.
It was the third of four consecutive Grand Slam titles won by Serena, all won by defeating Venus in the final.
She won her 13 Grand Slam doubles titles with her sister Venus Williams and the pair is unbeaten in Grand Slam finals .. Serena Williams is also a two time winner of the WTA Tour Championships
Venus Williams is one of only four women in the open era to have won five or more Wimbledon singles titles.
Venus also became only the sixth woman in history to win the singles titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open in consecutive years, the others being Martina Navrátilová ( twice ), Steffi Graf ( twice ), Althea Gibson, Maureen Connolly Brinker, and Helen Wills Moody ( twice ).
Currently both Venus and Serena have 43 career tennis titles.
The most successful female players currently playing are Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams, both with five Wimbledon singles titles.
The titles — The Eye Creatures, Zontar, The Thing from Venus, Creature of Destruction, Mars Needs Women, In the Year 2889, Curse of the Swamp Creature, Hell Raiders, and It's Alive!
It was the first of five Wimbledon titles for Venus Williams.
* Venus Library ( imprint of Grove Press )-Front covers of titles ( 1969-1973 )
As a pro, he won the 1998 Australian Open and French Open mixed doubles titles with Venus Williams as his partner.

Venus and consist
The actual traps consist of two lobes which fold together to form a snap-trap similar to that of the Venus fly trap, except that they are smaller and underwater.

Venus and seven
In it, he says, "... supposing the distance of the Earth from the Sun to be divided into ten equal Parts, of these the distance of Mercury will be about four, of Venus seven, of Mars fifteen, of Jupiter fifty two, and that of Saturn ninety six.
The voyage then progressed to Tahiti ( where the transit of Venus was observed, the overt purpose of the mission ), to New Zealand and to the east coast of Australia, where Cook mapped the coastline and made landfall at Botany Bay and at Endeavour River ( near modern Cooktown ) in Queensland, where they spent almost seven weeks ashore while the ship was repaired after becoming holed on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Venus de Milo was found to have been carved from at least six or seven blocks of Parian marble: one block for the nude torso, another block for the draped legs, another block apiece for each arm, another small block for the left foot, another block for the inscribed plinth, and finally, the separately carved herm that stood beside the statue.
This is concordant with the European pagan tradition, which named the days of the week after the seven Classical planets ( in order Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn ), naming the first day of the week for the Sun, perceived as most important, and moving to those perceived as lesser.
In fact, the sphere of the seven stars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, were supposed to be presided over, each by a different archon.
In Steiner's view, the main seven archangels with the names given by the esoteric Christianism are Michael ( Sun ), Oriphiel ( Saturn ), Anael ( Venus ), Zachariel ( Jupiter ), Raphael ( Mercury ), Samael ( Mars ), Gabriel ( Moon ) have a special assignment to act as a global Zeitgeist (" time spirit " or, " spirit of the times / age "), each for periods of about 380 years.
Then God ordered the elements into the seven heavens ( often seen as the spheres of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun and the Moon ) to travel in circles and govern destiny.
Notable works by Veronese are Venus and Adonis, Moses rescued from the Nile, and Christ among the Doctors, while important works by Tintoretto include Christ washing the Disciples ’ Feet and the seven paintings of Old Testament scenes purchased by Velázquez during his second Italian trip.
The Venus Flytrap is a small plant whose structure can be described as a rosette of four to seven leaves, which arise from a short subterranean stem that is actually a bulb-like object.
Together they form the seven classical planets, as well as the names of the seven days of the week-Sun-day, Moon-day, Saturn-day, and in Latin, ' Martis ' ( Mars, Tuesday ), ' Mercurii ' ( Wednesday ), ' Iovis ' ( Jupiter, Thursday ) and ' Veneris ' ( Venus, Friday ).
The story is about a class of school children on Venus, which in this story is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for one hour every seven years.
Of the seven cosmical bodies which, by their continually varying relative positions and distances apart, have ever since the remotest antiquity been distinguished from the " unwandering orbs " of the heaven of the " fixed stars ", which to all sensible appearance preserve their relative positions and distances unchanged, five only — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — wear the appearance of stars —" cinque stellas errantes "— while the Sun and Moon, from the size of their disks, their importance to man, and the place assigned to them in mythological systems, were classed apart.
In 1992, Gray published his book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus which has sold more than seven million copies and according to a 1997 report by the book's publisher, HarperCollins, it is the all time, best-selling hard-cover nonfiction book.
The group contributes financially to the University, announcing donations with letters signed only with seven astronomical symbols in the order: Earth, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Neptune, Uranus, and Venus.
Historically, there have been seven outstanding grass players in the open era: Pete Sampras, Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Björn Borg, Roger Federer, Venus Williams, Serena Williams and Billie Jean King.
with the Sun ( Sun ), Venus ( Venus ), Mercury ( Mercury ), and the moon ( Moon ), so that the sequence of planets repeats every seven hours.
* In Ray Bradbury's " All Summer in a Day " ( 1954 ), a short story later published in the 1959 collection A Medicine for Melancholy, the sun is seen for only an hour every seven years in a colony on Venus where it is constantly raining.
In the story, mankind discovers a race living on Venus which requires seven different sexes in order to reproduce.
Myanmar astrology recognizes the seven planets, namely Sun, Mon, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn.

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