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Serena Williams Wins 2009 Tennis Australian Open Regains #1 Ranking

In one of the most lopsided finals in Australian Open history, American Serena Williams overpowered Russian Dinara Safina, 6-0, 6-3, for her 10th major singles championship.

The second-seeded Williams, who also won this Grand Slam event in 2003, '05 and '07, will replace Serbia's Jelena Jankovic as the No. 1 ranked player in the world come Monday.

The four Australian Open titles are tied for the most-ever in the open era as Williams joined Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles on that list.

The Saturday victory for Williams, which came in just 59 minutes, occurred just a day after she and sister Venus took home the women's doubles title.

Serena Wins Tennis U.S. Open, Regains #1 Ranking

Serena Williams, of the United States, poses with her championship trophy after defeating Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, to win the women's finals championship match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008.

On the very first point of the match, Serena Williams hit a backhand so hard that her earring flew off. Turns out she was just getting warmed up. Williams kept pounding away, her shots and shouts getting louder with every stroke. And when she finished off Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 7-5 Sunday night for the U.S. Open championship and a ninth Grand Slam title, Williams really went wild.

She flung her racket high into the sky, hollering and hopping in a celebration that even she thought might've been over the top.

"I'm sorry I got so excited," she told Jankovic when they met at the net.

Serena Advances to Tennis U.S. Open Final vs. Jankovic 2008 No. 1 Ranking Up For Grabs

"I've just been way more consistent, playing a lot more and just putting in the effort," she said. "I'm here to stay."---Serena Williams, as she advances to the finals of the U.S. Open.

If Serena wins she will regain her No. 1 ranking for the first time since August 2003. This is a great rebound after losing this year's Wimbledon to her sister Venus in straight sets.
Serena will face off against young Serbian sensation Jelena Jankovic. At 23, Jankovic, has worked hard enough, that she too will gain the No. 1 ranking in tennis if she wins and beats Serena.

Looks Like Venus & Serena Williams May (Again) Take Center Court At The 2008 U.S. Open

Even as her baby sister prepared to play the night session against 29-year-old wild card Severine Bremond of France, ranked No. 121 in the world, tennis powerhouse Venus Williams tore through promising 19-year-old Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, 6-1, 6-3, to further demonstrate how she's sailing again at 28.

Two years after falling to No. 46 in the world through a wrist injury and inactivity, Williams has spent Wimbledon and the U.S. Open this year winning all 11 matches and all 22 sets thus far. Maybe it's that scope of vanilla she's been seeing and their pending engagement. Love does has a way of doing that to you!

Radwanska, who like Williams has a younger sister among the top 150 players, tried showing her ranking in the second set. Ripping some fearless shots into the corners, she in turn dredged some impressive stuff out of Williams, in particular some swinging backhand volleys with high degrees of difficulty.

From 3-3, Williams dominated, breaking Radwanska's serve in the seventh game and then crushing shots to break at 15-40 in the ninth game, heightening a summer that has included a Wimbledon title and an Olympic doubles title.

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Venus And Serena Bounce Back For Olympic Gold

For the second time in two tries, Venus and Serena won the doubles gold, beating a team from Spain here Sunday at the Olympic tennis complex. They did the same thing eight years ago in Sydney. And they did it in similar fashion Sunday. Sunday's final was 6-2, 6-0 over Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual. The final in Sydney was 6-1, 6-1 over the Dutch team of Kristie Boogert and Miriam Oremans.

Serena Injures Knee And Quits Semi-Finals, Is She Possibly Out For Beijing Olympics???

Top-seeded Serena Williams injured her left knee and pulled out of the Bank of the West Classic on Saturday, becoming the third singles player on the U.S. Olympic women's tennis team with a knee injury.

She retired while trailing during the second set of her semifinal match against qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak.

Williams' sister Venus and Lindsay Davenport, the other U.S. Olympic singles players, have already pulled out of next week's East West Bank Classic in Carson, Calif., with right knee injuries.

Serena Williams struggled from the start against the 85th-ranked Wozniak and first called for the trainer when trailing 5-2 in the first set. She got the knee heavily taped by the trainer and came out to finish the set, but appeared to struggle to plant on her injured leg.

Wozniak held serve to win the set and won 11 straight points to take a 3-1 lead early in the second. Williams appeared to injure the knee further while stretching for a backhand in the fifth game of the set and retired. She walked off the court and embraced her father, Richard.

Williams underwent surgery on her left knee in 2003 and missed 10 tournaments in 2006 with another injury to the knee. The extent of this injury was not immediately known.

Wozniak will play in Sunday's final against the winner of the night semifinal between sixth-seeded Marion Bartoli and Ai Sugiyama.
By JOSH DUBOW

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.

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Why I Love Black Women: Serena Williams

That ball never saw it coming!

Permanently maimed and ultimately sacrificed after this head-on collision with Serena Williams' tennis racket, each of these fuzzy yellow spheres were assaulted during this year's Australian Open. Strength and intensity personified. You go girl!

Unfortunately, Williams had to resort to playing the role of gracious loser last night after quarter-final loss to Jelena Jankovic.

The defending champion later indicated she was well short of 100 per cent. "As an athlete you know not every day you're going to feel 100 per cent, and some days you have to win feeling 30 per cent," Williams said. "I was having some issues, but I don't like to make excuses. We won't discuss those."

Williams still managed to head out to Margaret Court Arena soon after a singles loss to play doubles with her sister Venus.

Asked if the injury problem she floated extended to the doubles, Williams offered: "Yeah, definitely all through the day . . . but it's nothing life threatening, so I'll be fine."

ANOTHER WILLIAMS SISTER LOSES AT THE US OPEN? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

Venus Williams left the U.S. Open the same way Serena Williams did, undone by all those big shots off the racket of little Justine Henin.

In a riveting match filled with superb all-court play, Henin became only the second woman to beat both Williams sisters at the same Grand Slam tournament, reaching the final at Flushing Meadows with a 7-6 (2), 6-4 victory over Venus on Friday.

"I just went with my heart. I just kept fighting," Henin said. "I got a bit nervous, but finally I did it. I'm happy to get this one."

The No. 1-ranked Henin will face No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova on Saturday night in a title match featuring two past Open champions.

Henin eliminated Serena in the quarterfinals, and Venus said she wanted to right that wrong.

But it was the 5-foot-5, 125-pound Henin who worked every angle Friday, constructing points, sneaking to the net and repeatedly placing balls on the lines. She pounded serves at up to 117 mph, handled Williams' faster offerings, sometimes leaping to reach balls that bounced up near her shoulders.

Henin even came up with a second-set lob winner over the 6-1 Williams - a delivery that put a wide smile on the Belgian's face and left the American slumping her shoulders and hanging her head.

Henin had some trouble breathing early in the second set, and said afterward it was something that bothered her the past few days. By the end, however, Williams was the one who was physically spent, asking for a trainer to come out and check her pulse and temperature. Right after that, she hit some serves in the 70s while getting broken to trail 5-3 in the second set.

That's not to say the older Williams wasn't good at times, too.

She broke when Henin served for the first set at 5-4, ending a 10-stroke point with a backhand passing winner, and a 16-stroke exchange with a cross-court forehand winner on the line. In the next game, Williams won the point of the match on the 27th shot, a cross-court swinging forehand volley.

But Henin broke right back to end it. Appropriately, the final shot was a backhand by Williams that sailed out, her 35th unforced error - 13 more than Henin.

Wind swirled through Arthur Ashe Stadium, playing havoc with the ball, yet both women came up with all sorts of terrific shots and engaged in several long points filled with reflex volleys, great gets and clean winners on the run.

It was precisely what might be expected from a couple of players who each won six Grand Slam titles.

Henin is the one who gets to try for No. 7 on Saturday. She's into her third U.S. Open final since 2003 - she won the title that year and was the runner-up last year.

Serena Williams Loses At US Open, Then Verbally Moons The Public: Sistah, We Got Your Back!

While the much anticipated NFL season looms patiently over the shoulders of many Americans, the U.S. Open Tournament has triggered some press conference drama that even Dennis Green can appreciate. The two-week long U.S. Open that features superstar American sisters Venus and Serena Williams has captured the younger Serena in a bit of a mood after dropping her 3rd straight Grand Slam quarterfinals match to Justine Henin of Belgium.

Immediately after losing, Serena was visibly upset at the outcome, but the verbal dissatisfaction came in the press conference that followed. After giving a few short, bitter answers to why she lost, her assertion that Henin played better while hitting a lot of lucky shots caught the attention of fans and broadcasters who pointed out the unsportsmanlike nature of the comments.



It wasn’t Henin’s skill or tactics that got her the win, but her lucky shots. If the fans of the game didn’t take offense to those comments, Serena’s eventual claim that she would have skipped the press conference if she could afford the fine marked her as a petulant crybaby.

Although the post match comments were disrespectful to the legitimate winner, we have to stop gasping and realize that the girl was frustrated and tired of seeing the same person continue to beat her on a main stage.

There’s no rule in tennis that says the female athletes can’t be confident in their ability and visibly upset when another makes her recent millions by closing the door in her face. This frustration has obviously reared its ugly head in the form of a careless rant in the face of a question a PR rookie could tackle. So give the sister a break, let her be a bad sport in the moment.

Big Sister Venus Advances To Semifinals, Will Face Henin

It will make for a better match when they face each other again anyway. John McEnroe made himself famous for his toddler-style of public relations, so tennis isn’t getting anything now that hasn’t been done 10 times worse already.

Keep talking, it’s the only way they’ll ever hear you.--JJJ

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TODAY'S NEWS IS RAW, UNCUT AND NAKED TO THE CORE, JUST LIKE SERENA

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OMG! NO CREAM-NO SUGAR ACTUALLY HAS PICS OF BLACK ATHLETES WITH... BLACK WOMEN!!!

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!

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.