"June 2011, she was named one of the ""30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future"" by ""Time"". In March 2012, Tennis Channel aired a television series ""100 greatest tennis players of all time"", where she was ranked as 22nd. During the programme Williams was complimented by rival Lindsay Davenport, with Davenport saying 'Venus had more power than any other player on tour'. In 1995, when Williams was 14 years old, she signed an endorsement deal with Reebok and wore the company's apparel and shoes. She used Wilson Hammer 6.2 Stretch racket. Venus Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born"
"Williams sisters rivalry Venus Williams and Serena Williams (born June 17, 1980, and September 26, 1981, respectively) are professional tennis players and sisters who have faced off 30 times in professional tournaments, most recently in the 2018 US Open event. Serena leads their head-to-head 18–12. Both Williams sisters have been ranked World No. 1: Venus for a total of 11 weeks, beginning in February 2002; Serena for a total of 316 weeks, beginning in July 2002. The Williams sisters are the only two women during the open era to play each other in four consecutive Grand Slam finals: from the"
"Williams sisters The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price. There is a noted professional rivalry between them—between the 2001 US Open and the 2017 Australian Open tournaments—they met in nine Grand Slam singles finals. They became the first two players, female or male, to play in four consecutive Grand Slam singles finals from the 2002 French Open to the"
"think that Venus and Serena are drivers behind that"". WTA, Grand Slam, and Grand Slam Cup main draw results included. Serena Williams–Venus Williams (18–12) Serena Williams—Venus Williams (0–1) Serena Williams–Venus Williams (5–11) Serena Williams–Venus Williams (2–2) (W) Won tournament: final contested by the Williams sisters. Williams sisters rivalry Venus Williams and Serena Williams (born June 17, 1980, and September 26, 1981, respectively) are professional tennis players and sisters who have faced off 30 times in professional tournaments, most recently in the 2018 US Open event. Serena leads their head-to-head 18–12. Both Williams sisters have been ranked World No. 1: Venus"
"substantial performances on stage and screen."" Williams also delivered the 2008 convocation address, telling Syracuse seniors to ""treasure this moment. These days are irreplaceable and are the beginning of the rest of your life."" Williams is most often referenced and publicly recognized simply as ""Vanessa Williams"". There is, however, occasional confusion with the similarly named actress Vanessa A. Williams, who is just two months younger. It has been reported that Williams first became aware of Vanessa A. in the 1980s when her New York University registrar told her that another, similarly aged student with the same name and from the"
"Oracene Price Oracene Price (born April 3, 1952) is an American tennis coach. She is best known for being the mother of Venus and Serena Williams, regarded among the best tennis players of all time. She is the former wife of Richard Williams, whom she divorced in 2002. Nicknamed ""Brandy,"" Price was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1952. Her father was an automotive worker from the Mississippi Delta. She graduated from Buena Vista High School in 1970 and from Western Michigan University. She has three daughters from a previous marriage with Yusef Rasheed: Yetunde Price (1972–2003), who was a former"
"break point in the whole match against Kerber which she saved with an ace. Later that day, Williams partnered with sister Venus to win their sixth Wimbledon doubles title and 14th doubles Grand Slam title overall, keeping their perfect record at Grand Slam doubles finals intact. On July 24, 2016, Williams withdrew from Rogers Cup citing a shoulder inflammation injury. She next participated in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she was the defending gold medalist in both singles and doubles and was the heavy favourite to retain those titles. Partnering with her sister Venus in the doubles, they"
"to finish the season inside the top 20. Williams has played younger sister Serena in 30 professional matches since 1998. Overall, Venus has won 12 of those matches and Serena has won 18. They have met in 15 Grand Slam tournaments, with Venus winning five matches to Serena's ten. They have met in nine Grand Slam tournament finals, with Venus winning twice. Of the six occasions where they met in an earlier round, the victor has gone on to win the championship four times (Venus once, in the 2000 Wimbledon Championships). Beginning with the 2002 French Open, they played each"
"Venus Lacy Venus Lacy (some sources give her name as Venus Lacey, born February 9, 1967) is an American former star basketball player, at the high school, college, Olympic and professional levels. A wide-bodied, muscular center, at her best Lacy was an intimidating force inside the paint, both scoring and rebounding. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, she won championships at every level, but her American professional career was diminished by injuries she sustained in a 1997 car accident. A local sports heroine (a city parkway is named after her), Lacy led Chattanooga's Brainerd High School to the state championship in 1984."
"Serena Williams/Venus Williams. Playing beneath the roof of the Rod Laver Arena as temperatures hit 43 degrees Celsius outdoors, the Slovak—Japanese pairing appeared to have the upper hand at first, breaking Venus to take the opening game. But it did not take the sisters too long to find their rhythm as Sugiyama was broken for 2–2. Sugiyama's serve was under pressure again by some heavy returns and the sisters break again, serving out the first set 6–3. All four players failed to held serve at 1–1 in the second set, with Sugiyama's first to go, but eventually the Williamses get"
"women's wild card entry to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Defending champion Venus Williams advanced to her ninth quarterfinals at Wimbledon in twelve appearances, past 42nd-ranked Russian Alisa Kleybanova, and her sister Serena Williams dispatched compatriot WTA No. 69 Bethanie Mattek in straight sets 6–3, 6–3. Eighteenth seed Nicole Vaidišová recovered from the loss of the first set to win the second in a tie-break, and eventually overcome her opponent eighth seed Anna Chakvetadze after two hours of play, on the score of 4–6, 7–6(0), 6–3, Russian twenty-first seed and recent Eastbourne runner-up Nadia Petrova easily defeated compatriot and victor of"
"2015, Serena Williams wrote an exclusive column for TIME magazine stating her intentions to return to Indian Wells for a tournament on March 9, 2015. She did indeed return and won her opening match. Williams withdrew before her semi-final match with Simona Halep because of a knee injury. The WTA announced on January 27, 2016 that Venus would return to Indian Wells for the first time in 15 years. Williams sisters The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title"
"Murder of Yetunde Price Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price (9 August 1972 – 14 September 2003) was the elder half-sister of, and personal assistant to leading tennis players Venus and Serena Williams. In 2003, Price was murdered in a shooting in Compton, California. Yetunde Price was the eldest of Oracene Price's five daughters. She was one of the Williams’ three other sisters, a half-sibling from a previous relationship between their mother, tennis coach Oracene Price, and Yusef Rasheed. For a time, Price worked as a personal assistant to her tennis playing sisters, and also as a nurse. At the time of"
"was in the quarterfinals of the NASDAQ-100 Open, their third career meeting at the tournament. The match was won by Venus Williams 6–1, 7–6(8); it was the first meeting outside of a final between the two in three years and was the first win by the elder Williams sister in four years. The Williams sisters next met on one of the largest stages in tennis, the US Open, though much earlier in the tournament than they were accustomed to. Venus, as the recent Wimbledon champion and after three ""magnificent efforts"" to reach this round was perhaps favored in a Williams"
"slams in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. They won all of the mixed doubles titles in 1998 to go along with their titles in singles and women's doubles. Note: Serena Williams did not play at the 2004 Olympics because of injury. Venus partnered with American Chanda Rubin and lost in the first-round to eventual gold-medalists Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. During the 2001 Indian Wells Masters tournament in Indian Wells, California, controversy erupted when Venus Williams withdrew four minutes prior to her semifinal match with her sister Serena. The following day, Serena played Kim Clijsters in the final. Venus"
"tennis players Venus and Serena Williams. Musicians Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis are portrayed as having a turbulent relationship, similar to that of Ray and Dave Davies of The Kinks. Politicians Ed and David Miliband are likewise portrayed as having a strained relationship. Actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine had an uneasy relationship from childhood and in 1975 the sisters stopped speaking to each other completely. The incredibly popular singing Andrews Sisters maintained professional harmony in show business for more than 30 years, but clashed famously in their personal lives (after LaVerne's death in 1967, Patty and Maxene"
"No. 1 Hingis. However, Williams teamed with her sister Serena to win the doubles title at the event, completing a Career Golden Slam in women's doubles for the pair. Williams also reached the semifinals of the Tier I Tennis Masters Series tournament in Indian Wells, California, where she controversially defaulted her match with sister Serena just before the match started. Williams had been suffering from knee tendinitis throughout the tournament and eventually this prevented her from playing. The following day, Williams and her father Richard were booed as they made their way to their seats to watch the final. Serena"
"Venus break back in the eight game and twelfth game to take the first set. They then traded breaks in the third and fourth game of the second. Venus then broke Serena in the tenth game to take the title. This was the first Grand Slam final in which the Williams sisters had played each other since 2003. In the doubles, she and sister Venus cruised through their first four matches with wins over the teams of Tatiana Poutchek and Anastasia Rodionova, Marta Domachowska and Agnieszka Radwańska, Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual, and Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sania Mirza,"
"Richard Williams (tennis coach) Richard Williams, Jr. (born February 16, 1942) is an American tennis coach, and father of Venus and Serena Williams. Williams was one of six children and the only son of Julia Mae and Richard Williams, Sr. of Shreveport, Louisiana. Richard graduated from high school, moved to Chicago, and eventually to California, where he met Betty Johnson, whom he married in 1965. They had three daughters and three sons, including Richard Williams III, before divorcing in 1973. In 1979 Williams met Oracene Price, who had three daughters by her late husband. Together they had a daughter Venus,"
"who was born on June 17, 1980, and a daughter Serena born on September 26, 1981. Richard and Oracene would marry in 1980 and settled in Compton. He took tennis lessons from a man known as ""Old Whiskey"" and decided his future daughters would be tennis professionals when he saw Virginia Ruzici playing on television. Williams says that he wrote up a 78-page plan, and started giving lessons to Venus and Serena when they were four and a half, and began taking them to the public tennis courts. (He now says he feels like he took them too early, and"
"6–2. Due in part to the longevity of the Williams-Williams match, the players remained on court till after 2.11 am, meaning that the match was sixteen minutes shy of the latest match ever played at the Open. The late women's match was between the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, both of whom had won the Open title twice previously. Serena prevailed in two sets, 7–6(6), 7–6(7), but not without considerable difficulty. Venus took the initiative in the opening stages, breaking to lead 3–1, and had the advantage of serving for two sets points at 5–3, 40–15. However, Serena launched a"
"for the Fed Cup final, which a short-handed United States team lost to the Czech Republic. Keys finished the season ranked no. 17 in the world. Keys regarded Venus and Serena Williams as two of her childhood idols. She has also frequently been labeled as a potential successor to the Williams sisters to lead American women's tennis. Keys has never beaten Serena in three attempts but she does have a 2–2 record against Venus. Keys first played Venus in the semifinals of the 2013 Charleston Open, where Venus won a tight match against an 18-year-old Keys. Their next encounter occurred"
"they asked him to accompany them to Charleston, South Carolina for the Family Circle Cup. Since then he has acted as a travelling hitting partner for both women, most notably for elder sister Venus. David Witt David Witt (born High Point, North Carolina, June 2, 1973) is an American former professional tennis player best known as the long-time coach of Venus Williams. He enjoyed a successful junior career, during which time he won the USTA Boys' 16s Clay, Hard and National Championships and was the top-ranked under-16 in the USTA in 1989. He was also a semi-finalist at the US"
"the top seed at Wimbledon, Williams defeated Henin in the semifinals to make the final for the third consecutive year. However, there, she lost to Serena. This result meant Serena replaced Venus as the No. 1. The Williams sisters teamed up to win the women's doubles title at the event, their fifth Grand Slam women's doubles title together. Williams won the titles in San Diego and New Haven for the third consecutive year, defeating Davenport and Dokic to win the former and defeating Davenport in the final of the latter. At the US Open, Williams defeated Seles in the quarterfinals"
"to circulate. John McEnroe, while commenting on the 2000 Wimbledon semifinal between the two sisters, said that ""Serena may not be allowed to win. Richard may have something to say about this."" Elena Dementieva, a fellow professional player, said during a post match interview after losing to Venus at the Indian Wells quarterfinals in 2001, that Richard Williams decided the results between the two sisters. Venus pulling out at the last minute garnered much speculation in the press, with fans demanding their money back. After injuring herself in the quarterfinal match against Dementieva, her sister, Venus Williams, defaulted to Serena"
"together with her sister Venus, the most recent player to have held all four Grand Slam women's doubles titles simultaneously (2009–10). Her total of 23 Grand Slam singles titles marks the record for the most Grand Slam wins in the Open Era, and is second on the all-time list behind Margaret Court (24). She has won an all-time record of 13 Grand Slam singles titles on hard court. Williams holds the Open Era record for most titles won at the Australian Open (7) and shares the Open Era record for most titles won at the US Open with Chris Evert"
"2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open. Serena won all four of these finals. Venus has won 49 singles titles over the course of her career, and Serena has won 72. The two sisters remain personally very close. They have won 22 titles when playing doubles together, including 14 Grand Slam titles and 3 Olympic gold medals. Serena and Venus Williams played their first professional match against each other in the second round of the 1998 Australian Open. Venus won 7–6(4), 6–1. The match was described as ""subpar"". They played again in the quarterfinals of the Italian Open, the"
"Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics. Nearly a decade later, the duo would go on to win four consecutive Grand Slam doubles titles from 2009 Wimbledon through 2010 Roland Garros, which would catapult them to co-No. 1 doubles players on 7 June 2010. Two weeks later, on 21 June 2010, Serena would hold the No. 1 singles ranking, and Venus would be right behind her at No. 2 in singles. Their most recent Grand Slam doubles titles came at the 2012 Wimbledon and 2016 Wimbledon events. They remain very close, often watching each other's matches in support, even after one"
"to Jelena Dokic. 2000 US Open – Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion, but she was defeated in the quarterfinals by Lindsay Davenport, in a rematch of the previous year's semifinal. Serena's sister Venus won in the final 6–4, 7–5 against Davenport. With the victory, Venus Williams became the second woman in history to win Wimbledon, Olympics, and the US Open in the same season after Steffi Graf. Her sister, Serena Williams would also accomplish this feat in 2012. This was the first Grand Slam appearance for future 2010 French Open champion, Francesca Schiavone. She reached the third"
"titles, Williams trails only Serena among active players on the WTA Tour with most singles titles. Her 35-match winning streak from the 2000 Wimbledon Championships to the 2000 Generali Ladies Linz tournament final is the longest since January 1, 2000. She is also one of only three active WTA players to have reached the finals of all four Grand Slams, along with Serena and Maria Sharapova. Williams was born in Lynwood, California, to Richard Williams and Oracene Price. Her talents were apparent at the age of seven when a professional local tennis player named Tony Chesta spotted Williams and quickly"
"of them has been knocked out of a tournament. Both sisters have been ranked by the Women's Tennis Association at the world No. 1 position in both singles and doubles. In 2002, after the French Open, Venus Williams and Serena Williams were ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, marking the first time in history that sisters occupied the top 2 singles spots in the world rankings. During the 2010 French Open, they became the co-world No. 1 players in women's doubles. On 21 June 2010, Serena and Venus again held the No. 1 and No. 2 rankings spots in"
"singles, fourth seed Serena Williams continued to make serene progress, as she defeated Séverine Brémond 6–2, 6–2. Williams was highly successful on her first serve, with a conversion rate of 69%, and a points-won rate of 90%. Sister Venus, the number seven seed, set up a quarter-final clash with her, as she also completed an easy victory, over ninth seed Agnieszka Radwańska, 6–1, 6–3. Serena and Venus, who had recently played each other in the Wimbledon final (with Venus emerging the victor), expressed dismay at their seedings, which meant that they met at an earlier round than the final. The"
"Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf. In total, she has been No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third in the ""Open Era"" among female players behind Graf and Martina Navratilova. Williams holds the most Grand Slam titles"