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Venus and rebounded
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 and singles
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.
Venus Ebony Starr Williams ( born June 17, 1980 ), is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 41 as of September 24, 2012 in singles.
Venus Williams ' titles consist of: seven in singles, thirteen in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles.
Venus Williams is one of only four women in the open era to have won five or more Wimbledon singles titles.
Venus won the match and her fourth Grand Slam singles title.
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 ).
Venus finished 2009 ranked world number 6 in singles ( with a winning percentage of 70 percent ) and world number 3 in doubles with Serena, in spite of playing only 6 events together in 2009.
Henin established herself as a major competitor in 2001 when she reached the women's singles semifinals of the French Open and then upset the reigning Australian Open and French Open champion Jennifer Capriati in the semifinals of Wimbledon, losing to defending champion Venus Williams in three sets in the final.
When Dutch radio stations began playing the four minute, eight track Beatles segment of the medley, placed in the middle of the original 12 " mix, an edited 7 " single with the Beatles part preceded by " Venus " and The Archies ' " Sugar Sugar " was released and hit the # 1 spot of the Dutch singles charts in February 1981.
Stock Aitken Waterman had three of the most successful Hi-NRG singles ever with their productions of Dead or Alive's " You Spin Me Round ( Like a Record )" ( UK No. 1 & US No. 11 in 1985 ), Bananarama's " Venus " ( US No. 1 & UK No. 8 in 1986 ), and Rick Astley's " Never Gonna Give You Up " ( UK No. 1 & US No. 1 in 1987 ).
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.
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.
They have also been musically successful with hit singles such as " Venus " and " Yume Monogatari ".
Venus Williams ' Wimbledon triumph was her first singles Grand Slam trophy since 2001.
The most successful female players currently playing are Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams, both with five Wimbledon singles titles.
Pennetta has defeated multiple Grand Slam singles champions such as Justine Henin, Mary Pierce, Martina Hingis, Amélie Mauresmo, Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova.
Defending champion Venus Williams fell to Jelena Janković, making this year the first since 1999 neither Williams sister featured in the Wimbledon women's singles final.
At the US Open, Stosur lost in the first round of singles to seventh seed Venus Williams.
Stosur qualified in singles for the year-ending WTA Tour Championships in Doha for the first time in her career, following the withdrawal of American, Venus Williams.
In the quarterfinals, she fell to seven-time Grand Slam singles champion No. 3 seed Venus Williams 7 – 6, 6 – 4.
The following week, at the Australian Open, the Chinese star finally won her first grand slam singles match, defeating Maria Elena Camerin of Italy 6 – 1, 6 – 2 before being overcome by Venus Williams in Round Two.

Venus and play
Aleister Crowley wrote a play called Tannhauser which follows the character Tannhauser and the infamous Venus.
* English dramatist Christopher Fry, in his play " Venus Observed ", includes the phrase, "... every pool's as populous as Penge ..." in a long speech.
His Venus auf Erden (" Venus on Earth "), a revue-like one-act play was created in 1897 at the Apollo Theater in Friedrichstraß.
In the radio play Das Unternehmen Der Wega ( The Mission of the Vega ) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, the human inhabitants of Venus, all banished there from various regions of Earth for civil and political offenses, form and live under a peaceful adhocracy, to the frustration of delegates from an Earth faction who hope to gain their cooperation in a war brewing on Earth.
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 1975 Paul McCartney invited the Meters to play at the release party for his Venus and Mars album aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California ; Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones was in attendance at the event and was greatly taken with the Meters and their sound.
He and his song " Venus " are mentioned in Wendy Wasserstein's 2005 play Third.
A one-act comedy, Le Café, failed in 1694, and he was not much happier with a more ambitious play, Le Flatteur ( 1696 ), or with the opera Venus et Adonis ( 1697 ).
In the play, Paris is arraigned before Jupiter for having assigned the apple to Venus.
But no matter how obvious it is that the child is guilty, Trudy always finds in favor of them ( even defending them by making up reasons as to why the child did the incident ) and delivers ridiculous sentences to the adults ( some of them occurring if the defendant doesn't have the fine money ) such as trapping a defendant in a rocket and sending him to Venus, having the defendant being chased by an unpredictable man in a gorilla suit, having the defendant be thrown into a leopard cage, having the defendants participate in a cage match with two professional wrestlers, crushing the defendant with a boulder, unleashing two hungry leprechauns to chew on the defendants, placing a nest of deranged woodpeckers on the defendant's head, having a defendant handcuffed to a sweaty opera singer, having the defendant trapped in a box with two contagious sick people, placing a defendant in a bathtub filled of cream and mushroom soup, having an old person doing a piggyback ride on the defendant, having the defendants play Dodgeball with three Marines, having the defendant being sold to the highest bidder in the courtroom, giving the defendant a little shot itself, opening a trap door beneath the defendants, confiscating the defendant's clothes, having the Bailiff spinnthe defendant until the defendant is uncomfortable, and putting an angry chipmunk in the defendant's pants.
It first appeared in Wesley's Hymns for those that Seek, and those that Have Redemption ( Bristol, 1747 ), apparently intended as a Christianization of the song " Fairest Isle " sung by Venus in Act 5 of John Dryden's operatic play King Arthur ( 1691 ), on which Wesley's first stanza is modelled.
In 2010, he starred opposite Nina Arianda in the premier of the David Ives play Venus in Fur at the Classic Stage Company in New York City.
He again entered a 12-step program and, while clean since then, considers himself on the path to recovery, and has begun to rebuild his career by starring in the Off-Broadway play Venus in Fur.
We find next that " Panting he lies, and breatheth in her face ," while Venus tells him " Be bold to play, our sport is not in sight.
Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh took over the management of the theatre in 1950, opening with Christopher Fry ’ s new play, Venus Observed.
After Kay's divorce from Gaston, she became engaged to a society playboy, Alan Ryan Jr. She promised Alan's family that she would not return to the stage – a promise that lasted only a few months before she was back on Broadway as an aviatrix in a Rachel Crothers play, Venus.
Transit of Venus is a play by Canadian playwright Maureen Hunter.
In the play, he is obsessed with observing the transit of Venus.
* Transit of Venus ( play ), a 1992 play by Maureen Hunter
* Transit of Venus ( opera ), a 2007 operatic adaptation of the 1992 play
This play followed the springtime of The Lady ’ s Not For Burning and the autumnal Venus Observed.
Following the release of Rosa Venus and the subsequent tour Fobia returned to Mexico City to play a series of shows including an opening slot for the Rolling Stones held at El Foro Sol.

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