* 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 Serena teamed to win the women's doubles title at the event, their sixth Grand Slam title in women's doubles.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

The Forum of Caesar, with its Temple of Venus Genetrix, was then built, among many other public works.

rightThe Mariner 10 spacecraft launched on November 3, 1973 and was the first to use a gravity assist trajectory, accelerating as it entered the gravitational influence of Venus, then being flung by the planet's gravity onto a slightly different course to reach Mercury.

In order of increasing distance from the Sun, they are the four terrestrials, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, then the four gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Divide the distance from the Sun to Saturn into 100 parts ; then Mercury is separated by four such parts from the Sun, Venus by 4 + 3 = 7 such parts, the Earth by 4 + 6 = 10, Mars by 4 + 12 = 16.

Partridge and Moulding then released instrumental and demo versions of the two Apple Venus albums.

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.

On 9 September 2060, Halley has been calculated to pass within of Jupiter, and then on 20 August 2061, pass within of Venus.

Designs for the VGA envision a relatively large reversible-fluid balloon, filled with helium and water, that could descend to the surface of Venus to sample surface sites, and then rise again to high altitudes and cool off.

In these situations, a planet in retrograde motion — always either Mercury or Venus, from the point of view of the Earth — will " drop back " in right ascension until it almost allows another planet to overtake it, but then the former planet will resume its forward motion and thereafter appear to draw away from it again.

Davenport then reached the semifinals of the Tier I San Diego tournament, where she lost to Venus Williams.

So, looking at Venus, the most beautiful of goddesses, might at first raise a physical response in viewers which then lifted their minds towards the Creator.

On March 5, 1979, a few months after the successful dropping of satellites into the atmosphere of Venus, the two Soviet spacecraft that were then drifting through the Solar System were hit by a blast of gamma ray radiation at approximately 10: 51 EST.

Positioned around the central painting are six roundels containing personifications of six of the then known planets of the Moon, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with their associated zodiac signs.

The tunnels facilitate colonization, since they can be adapted to human use at a fraction of what it would cost to dig them from scratch, and they and the other artifacts attract scientists who want to study them ; then adventurers and prospectors who hope to make money by discovering more artifacts ; and finally tourists rich enough to travel to Venus and see all this.

The mural of Venus from Pompeii was never seen by Botticelli, the painter of The Birth of Venus, but may have been a Roman copy of the then famous painting by Apelles which Lucian mentioned.

The Cassini probe passed by Venus twice, then Earth, and finally Jupiter on the way to Saturn.

Symbolically, it relates to the mobilization of the spark of incarnate energy originally conceived and then brought into being through Luna and then Venus.

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.

He speculated that the planet Venus is a former " comet " which was ejected from Jupiter and subsequently 3, 500 years ago made two catastrophic close passes by Earth, 52 years apart, and later interacted with Mars, which then had a series of near collisions with Earth which ended in 687 B. C., before settling into its current orbit.