Venus Williams
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Birth Name: Venus Ebone Starr Williams
Birth Date: June 17, 1980
Birth Place: Lynwood, California, USA
Residence: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, U.S.
Height: 6′ 1″
Weight: 73 kg
Sex: Female
Nationality: American
Profession: Sports Star, Tennis Player
Turned pro: October 31, 1994
Plays: Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money: US$26,197,036(as of May 8, 2010) [2nd all-time among female athletes]
Education: High School: (home schooled)
University: (fashion design) Art Institute of Florida
Father: Richard Williams
Mother: Oracene Price
Sisters: Serena Williams (tennis player, b. 26-Sep-1981), Yetunde Price (stepsister, d. 14-Sep-2003 murder)
Half Sisters: Lyndrea Price (stepsister), Isha Price (stepsister)
Singles
Career record: 572–139 (80.5%)
Career titles: 43 (tied-10th in overall rankings)
Highest ranking: No. 1 (February 25, 2002)
Current ranking: No. 2 (May 17, 2010)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open: Final (2003)
French Open: Final (2002)
Wimbledon: Won (2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008)
US Open: Won (2000, 2001)
Major tournaments
WTA Championships: Won (2008)
Olympic Games: Gold medal (2000)
Doubles
Career record: 141–21 (86.7%)
Career titles: 18
Highest ranking: No. 2 (May 17, 2010)
Australian Open: Won (2001, 2003, 2009, 2010)
French Open: Won (1999)
Wimbledon: Won (2000, 2002, 2008, 2009)
US Open: Won (1999, 2009)
Major doubles tournaments
Olympic Games: Gold medal (2000, 2008)
Mixed Doubles
Career record: 25–6 (80.6%)
Career titles: 2
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open: Won (1998)
French Open: Won (1998)
Wimbledon: Final (2006)
US Open: Quater Final (1998)
Venus Williams Short Biography
Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on three separate occasions; she is currently ranked World No. 2. She is the reigning Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open doubles champion and has won 20 Grand Slam titles: seven in women’s singles, eleven in women’s doubles and two in mixed doubles. In addition, she has won three Olympic gold medals, one in women’s singles and two in women’s doubles. She currently has the most gold Olympic medals of active female tennis players, and also the most of all time.
Williams reached the US Open finals at the age of 17, becoming the first woman since 1978 to reach a US Open final on her début and was the first unseeded female US Open finalist since 1958. After her breakthrough, Williams breached the top ten on the WTA world rankings for the first time in 1998 when she won the Lipton Championships in Miami. Between 2000 and 2001, Williams won four of the six Grand Slam tournaments she entered. Her 35-match winning streak from the 2000 Wimbledon to the final at Linz, where she lost to Lindsay Davenport, remains the longest of the millennium. She became the World No. 1 for the first time in February 2002.
Williams suffered an abdominal injury in mid-2003 which prevented her from playing. Upon her return in 2004, she experienced inconsistent results. In 2005, she won her first Grand Slam title in four years at Wimbledon, but since then she suffered from a wrist injury and only played six events in 2006. Her world rankings suffered as a result, being World No. 54 in February 2006. However, Williams eventually won another Grand Slam title at the Wimbledon in 2007, becoming the lowest-seeded and lowest-ranked Wimbledon champion in history. Williams returned to the top ten later that year and has since competed in every Grand Slam event. She returned to the top three for the first time in six years in May 2009. One year later, in May 2010, she returned to the top two for the first time in seven years.
Williams was born in Lynwood, California to Richard Williams and Oracene Price. She is of African American heritage and is the second youngest of Oracene’s five daughters: half-sisters Yetunde (died September 14, 2003), Lyndrea and Isha Price, and younger sister and current World No. 1 tennis player Serena Williams. Her mother raised her five daughters as members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group. Venus and Serena have played each other in 23 professional matches dating back to 1998, with Venus winning 10 matches played between them as of March 2010. Their meeting in the final of the 2001 US Open was the first Grand Slam final contested by two sisters in the open era. As of July 2009, they have met in eight Grand Slam finals, with Venus winning two of those. Between the 2002 French Open and the 2003 Australian Open, the sisters met in all four Grand Slam finals, the first time in the open era that the same two players had contested four consecutive Grand Slam finals.
With 43 career singles titles, Williams leads active players on the WTA Tour, and is tied for 10th overall in all-time titles. Critics have called Venus the best player of her generation (while others put her as second behind sister Serena), citing her big serve, court coverage and numerous titles as the elements that set her apart from the others.
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Nice post. I normally roam all over the ‘net too much to bother commenting but made an exception here
That cat suit was just plain bad to me. I liked her 2007 Aussie dress. She is starting to look more conservative and I like that, especially her new hairdo.
She should wear GORILLA’S Skin. it suits her the most. IT would show she’s the long lost kin…
WTF ! She looks like a man dude ! You need to come out of the closet, she is the most masculine woman in tennis !
you can always count on Maria Sharapova if you want an athlete that is super sexy “”