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Venus and Serena
* 1942 – Richard Williams, father of Venus Williams and Serena Williams
* 15-Yetunde Price, 30, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.
* June 8 – Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus Williams in straight sets to win the 2002 French Open.
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 once again lost to Venus in the Stanford final and to Serena Williams in the Los Angeles final.
She lost in the Australian Open doubles final with Morariu to Venus and Serena 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.
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.
It was the third of four consecutive Grand Slam titles won by Serena, all won by defeating Venus in the final.
* 2002 US Open: Lindsay Davenport defeated Yelena Bovina to advance to the semi-finals against the winner of Serena Williams vs. Daniela Hantuchová ; Monica Seles defeated Martina Hingis to advance to the quarter-finals against Venus Williams.
* 2002 US Open: Serena Williams defeats Venus Williams.
One spot featured the Hamburglar and Grimace with Cedric The Entertainer, and the final spot featured the Hamburglar with tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.
At the beginning of 1999 Graf played the warm up event to the Australian Open in Sydney ; she defeated Serena Williams in the 2nd round and Venus Williams in the quarter-finals before losing to Lindsay Davenport in the semi-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
Her father home-schooled Serena and her sister Venus < ref >
Venus Williams has played against her sister Serena Williams in 23 professional matches since 1998, with Serena winning 13 of the 23 matches.
The Williams family moved from Compton, California, to West Palm Beach, when she was ten, so that Venus and Serena could attend the tennis academy of Rick Macci, who took notice of the sisters and who would provide additional coaching.
At the Grand Slam Cup in Munich, Venus defeated Hingis in the semifinals before losing to Serena for the first time in the final.
However, Venus teamed with Serena to win the doubles title at the event, completing a Career Grand Slam in women's doubles for the pair.
This result meant Serena replaced Venus as the World No. 1.

Venus and teamed
Venus and Serena then teamed to win the women's doubles title, their first Grand Slam doubles title together since 2003.
Venus then teamed up with Serena to play doubles at the open, where they won the title over defending champions and world No. 1s in doubles, Cara Black and Liezel Huber, claiming their third grand slam doubles title in 2009.
In doubles, Venus teamed with Serena as the second seed.
While losing on the first day against Venus Williams, she won her singles match against Meilen Tu on the second day and then teamed with Elena Vesnina to beat Williams and Lisa Raymond in the decisive doubles rubber.

Venus and win
Venus rebounded from the Indian Wells controversy to win the next tournament on the tour calendar, the Tier I Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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 ).
At the US Open, Williams was playing some of her best tennis since dominating the circuit in 2003, However, she was defeated in two tiebreaks by Serena in an epic quarter final match after Venus led 5 – 3 in both sets, and would later win the tournament.
The latter win meant that Venus led the head-to-head in career matches with her sister for the first time since 2002.
Dokic reached the final of the Open Gaz de France, where she was forced to hand a walkover to Venus Williams, after her first victory over Monica Seles a day earlier, due to a right thigh strain suffered in her win.
Before the tournament, Arcite prays to Mars that he win the battle ; Palamon prays to Venus that he marry Emilia ; Emilia prays to Diana that she be wed to the one who loves her best.
Spurned, Mars seeks the aid of the god of sport Euphron, brother of Venus, who creates the game of chess as a gift for Mars to win Caissa's favor.
The highlight of Myskina's 2004 season was a victory at the French Open, where she saved match points in the fourth round against Svetlana Kuznetsova, then defeated former world number 1 players Venus Williams and Jennifer Capriati, en route to a 6 – 1, 6 – 2 victory over compatriot Elena Dementieva in the first all-Russian Grand Slam final, thus making her the first female Russian to win a Grand Slam singles title.
Serena won the US Open in 1999 ; Venus beat Lindsay Davenport to win the 2000 Wimbledon title.
Serena Williams defeated her sister Venus to win her second Grand Slam title, her first French Open title and the first of four consecutive Grand Slams in what was called the " Serena Slam ".
Marat Safin won his first US Open title and first of two Grand Slams, defeating Pete Sampras in the final, and Venus Williams defeated Davenport to win the women's title.
The Golden Age Sivana was a twice-widowed father with four children: good-natured adult offspring Beautia ( first appearance: Whiz Comics # 3 ( April 1940 )) who when first seen is Empress of Venus and has bewitching beauty which affects men like a drug, which Sivana once used to try to make her win an election, and the Super-strong Magnificus ( first appearance: Whiz Comics # 15 ( March 1941 )), and evil teenagers Georgia ( first appearance: Mary Marvel Comics 1 ( January 1946 )) and Thaddeus Sivana, Jr. ( first appearance: Captain Marvel Adventures # 52 ( December 1945 )).
She won her first round match again, beating Jelena Janković 5 – 7, 6 – 1, 7 – 5 for her first top ten win since defeating Venus Williams at the 2009 French Open before losing in a close two-set match to Aravane Rezaï in the second round.
She won the title by defeating Ayumi Morita 7 – 6, 6 – 3, Melanie Oudin 7 – 5, 6 – 4, Jelena Janković 3 – 6, 7 – 6, 6 – 3, saving two match points in the second set, Samantha Stosur in the semifinals 6 – 3, 1 – 6, 6 – 1, and second seed Venus Williams in the finals 6 – 2, 5 – 7, 6 – 4, to win her second title of the year and fifth overall.
Peng finally recorded her first win of the year at the Tier 2 Bangalore Open against Anne Kremer before losing in three sets to Venus Williams, she also won the doubles title with Sun Tiantian.

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