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Venus and Serena at Wimbledon 2010
June 25th, 2010
The most dominant force in Women’s Tennis at Wimbledon over the past decade or so, without doubt, are the Williams sisters; having won a combined 8 singles titles, and 4 doubles titles together.
I’m rooting for them again this year, so here’s a little something to chear them on.
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Defending Champ Serena Williams took Centre Court at Wimbledon on Tuesday, scoring a comfortable 6-0 6-4 first-round win over Portugal’s Michelle Larcher de Brito. Then Serena conducted a 6-0, 6-1 rout over Russia’s Anna Chakvetadze on Thursday. Serena will next face Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova in the third round.
In the first round Venus defeated Rossana de los Rios of Paraguay 6-3, 6-2. In Round 2, Venus, the five-time camp, defeate Ekaterina Makarova (Ee-kat’-eh-ree-nuh Mah-kah’-ro-vuh) 6-0, 6-4. Venus plays Alisa Kleybanova in the 3rd round, today.
Edit To Add - 6/28: On Saturday, Serena defeated the 46th-ranked Slovak 6-0, 7-5 on Centre Court. Venus also won her third round match, beating Alisa Kleybanova 6-4, 6-2 on Friday.
Then Today in the 4th round, Venus reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the 11th time by beating Australian Jarmila Groth, in a close tie-break to win 6-4 7-6 (7/5). Serena too won her 4th round match to reach the finals.
Serena Williams also reached the quarter finals today beating former champion Maria Sharapova in straight sets in a rematch of the 2004 final.
Three-time champion Williams served 19 aces, winning 7-6 (9), 6-4.
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its nice for us we are waiting to see them on coat.,success for both of them.