Breakfast At Wimbledon: Venus Beats Serena for 5th Wimbledon Championship

Venus From Her 2008 Win, With Lil Sis

What a great way to ease into the rest of the weekend; a cup of coffee, your favorite bowl of cereal and the decidedly gorgeous Williams sisters battling each other on center court of the Ladies Wimbledon Finals of tennis. OK. Call it gratuitous ogling at lovely ladies, that I can get away with because my wife is a tennis fan too. So this morning everyone is getting what they want, except Serena.

This is the 7th meeting of Serena and Venus in a Tennis Grand Slam Finals. Serena won in a straight two sets and it was no cake walk 7-5 and 6-4 respectively. Serena now holds the edge with six wins to Serena's one win in Slam Finals.

They both looked in top shape and together demolished Nathalie Dechy and Casey Dellacqua yesterday in the Wimbledon Ladies Semi Finals and will play the finals tonight. I always hate it when these two play as it of course brings back memories of my own Sibyl rivalries with my brothers. Like Serena I'm the youngest of three boys from Detroit and... oops sorry I digress into my own issues. I'll save this for my Wednesdays therapy session.

I love me some Serena in so many ways and tennis being one of them but I can't help rooting for Venus as she really hasn't been able to win in any other "majors" lately. But at age 28 Serena owns Wimbledon with five wins and if that's her thing, then Serena and the others need not step to the grass at Wimbledon.

VENUS AND SERENA ADVANCE TO WIMBLEDON QUARTER FINALS

Wimbledon has already lost its top-four seeded women's players, while the Williams sisters keep rolling toward another sibling final. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are also closing in on another title matchup.

Monday's fourth-round play at the All England Club produced more upsets at the top of the women's seedings, but also offered more convincing wins from the champions and title contenders.

The Williams sisters posted back-to-back victories on Court 2 — nicknamed the "Graveyard of Champions" for its history of upsets. They questioned why they weren't put on Centre Court or Court 1.

Defending champion and seventh-seeded Venus Williams beat Russian teenager Alisa Kleybanova 6-3, 6-4, while two-time winner and No. 6 Serena downed Bethanie Mattek — the only other American left in the men's or women's draw — 6-3, 6-3.

For more, visit the Associated Press.

VENUS WINS WIMBLEDON ...... WITH A WHITE MAN BY HER SIDE!

Now that I have your attention ... scroll down and read the wonderful article one of my partners of this blog site wrote about Venus winning the singles championship at Wimbledon.

But note the picture of Venus hand in hand with the prematurely balding white guy. "Go ahead scroll down and come back to my article, I'll wait ....................................

All right did ya' see it? Did ya see them? Ya' think Venus' smile could have been any bigger? What's going on? Where are the comments? Where is the outrage? No one has made one comment!!! We don't have one, "What? She couldn't find a brother to get with?" No "What, Black men aren't good enough for her?" No "See that's what happens when a sista' gets successful, she just forgets aaaaallllll about her people!!!"

I ain't crazy! 'cause WOMEN are still rolling their eyes at Tiger "I got my Swedish girl, right here" Woods. You women are still sucking your teeth over Tony Parker marrying Eva Longoria, especially after what was rumored to have been said, by her relatives about her Black fiance. In fact you gave no sympathy when you heard Eva's mother and grandmother, didn't care "how much money the Black boy makes. " What you women, you Black women did say was, "See, serves him right for 'crossing over.'"

Let's face it, in private or in your girl-girl circles, Black women see a "successful, high profile, doing his thang, celebrity 'Brotha'--- with a White (and now Latina ... ask Kobe Bryant) woman and that "White, Latina (also check Asian ... ala Wesley Snipes and Wayne Brady) and the woman's' first name instantly becomes 'conniving' and her last name rhymes with 'witch.'

So I'm here to say for the record -- Venus has never looked "faaahinner", her skin is like "Butter" and I'm sad she's not with a Brotha'. And I'm not letting Serena Williams off the hook 'cause I saw those beach pictures with her, and her first major beau. "Mega Film Director, Brett Ratner!" and I was pretty pissed then too.

So what we need is a Jack and Jill Social Club for the the celebrity challenged who can't seem to find other successful Black folks to hang out with, and go to spring dances.

Ya' got something to say? Let it fly!

VENUS ADVANCES TO THE SEMI-FINALS AT WIMBLEDON

Venus Williams of the US reacts as she defeats Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, in their Women's Singles match on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Thursday July 5, 2007.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

SERENA SHOWS US WHAT SHE'S WORKIN' WITH

WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND — Serena Williams bunny-hopped three times on her 1 1/2 legs, set herself inside the baseline to await the final serve, then took the ball on the rise and jammed it back cross-court hard enough to not only handcuff tall, bewildered Daniela Hantuchova but drive one final stake into her mortally damaged psyche.

Maybe Williams was once as distraught as everyone else here about the incessant rain that has pelted Wimbledon for most of the first eight days, but you'll never again hear her complain.

"I was definitely saved by the rain," she acknowledged. And she might have added to the list of saviors the trainers who iced her badly pulled calf muscle, who fed her so much liquid she was begging the chair umpire for a bathroom break in the third set and, of course, Hantuchova, who fell into the classic trap of playing tentatively against a wounded opponent.

Williams had virtually collapsed on Centre Court in the second set of this 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-2 triumph when pain suddenly shot through her left leg immediately after her Slovakian adversary had scored for a 30-15 lead at 5-5.

Fallen warrior, Williams lay on the grass, gripping her leg, and the anguished look on her face must have been frightening to her parents and sister, Venus, who watched from the stands.
But after three minutes of medical attention, she insisted on continuing, hoping that, while she could scarcely walk, her serve would put her into the tiebreak and give her a chance of winning straight sets.


Her prospects were exceedingly grim, however, when Hantuchova shot out to a 4-0 lead and was at 4-2 in the breaker. Then, rain shut down play for nearly two hours, allowing her to get treatment and return for one brave, final stand.

"I thought about not finishing, but very briefly," she said. "I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I hadn't at least tried."

Williams will next play No. 1 seed Justine Henin, who has lost only 15 games in four matches and breezed into the quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-2 win over No. 15 Patty Schnyder. Henin and Williams will meet on Wednesday.