Venus and Serena Williams are the only women (during the Open Era) to have played each other in four consecutive Grand Slam singles finals.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Friday, 13 November 2009
(Bloomberg) - U.S. Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe says tennis officials have waited too long to suspend 11-time Grand Slam Champion Serena Williams for her outburst at the U.S. Open in September. "The opportunity for a suspension of any sort has passed" said McEnroe. "If it had happened, it should have happened right at the U.S. Open. To suspend her now, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense." Suspending Williams from the Jan. 18th - 31st Australian Open, the first Grand Slam event of the 2010 season, wouldn't be fair to the tournament said McEnroe.
"For a first offense, to suspend her at the Australian Open, you're penalizing them for something they really had nothing to do with. It was obviously outrageous what she did but it was really the first time anything like that has happened. If you look at the history of suspensions in tennis, they are generally from a second, third or fourth offense. If another player did something like what she did, they may have been defaulted right out of the tournament, right on the spot, for singles and doubles. Did Serena get treated differently? Maybe. That's not to say it's right or wrong, it just is what it is."
-- by Michael Buteau
"It's weird, I don't understand it, when I heard I, didn't know what to think and I still don't. But I don't believe it should define his career. A career is a whole timepiece, a whole period. That whole drugs thing freaks me out, I don't even know what crystal meth is. I've never seen it on the L.A. scene. Tennis is, for me, a pure sport. I get tested randomly all the time. I didn't do that drugs and wild life thing because of Venus. When I was younger, she was my protector, my bodyguard, my everything. She always looks out for me. She is such a good person. I couldn't have asked for a better older sister."(Andre Agassi admitted to taking crystal meth in 1997 and failing a drug test).
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Since 1980, only three players have won the US Open singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles - MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (who won all three in 1987), ARANTXA SANCHEZ-VICARIO (1994 singles, 1993-1994 doubles, 2000 mixed doubles) and SERENA WILLIAMS (1999, 2002, 2008 singles, 1999 and 2009 doubles, 1998 mixed doubles).
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