Venus Williams made an impressive start to her Wimbledon campaign by sweeping aside Akgul Amanmuradova 6-3, 6-1 in their first-round match on Court Two. Five-time champion Venus Williams moved to the second round of Wimbledon by beating Akgul Amanmuradova in straight sets. The American, who last week made her comeback to professional tennis at [...]
For more than a decade the Williams sisters viewed Wimbledon warm-up tournaments as surplus to requirements and they were right as they lifted the Rosewater Dish nine times in 11 years between them. Venus Williams says she is excited to “just be playing any first-round match anywhere” after what she describes as the toughest injury [...]
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Maria Sharapova suffered a fourth round shock at the Australian Open on Sunday when she was bundled out 6-2 6-3 by Germany’s Andrea Petkovic on Sunday. On the back foot from the start, Sharapova committed 30 unforced errors in a performance which underlined her struggles since her shoulder surgery in late 2008, the year she [...]
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Roger Federer opened the defense of his Australian Open title with a straight-set victory in which he lost a total of five games to Lukas Lacko of Slovakia. American Andy Roddick also dropped only five games to join Federer in the second round. Top-seeded woman Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark won in straight sets, as did [...]
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Venus Williams will sit out the rest of the 2010 tennis season, including the Fed Cup final between the United States and Italy next month, because of a nagging knee injury. Williams has not played since the U.S. Open, where she lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Kim Clijsters. She was to due to [...]
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