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Serena Williams who wore a white belted trench coat white belted trench coat at Wimbledon this year, while warming up, talks about her Nike tennis fashion line for Fall 2008 and her affinity for design. Serena Williams who wore a white belted trench coat white belted trench coat at Wimbledon this year, while warming up, talks about her Nike tennis fashion line for Fall 2008 and her affinity for design.
Perhaps the guys are trying to steal the style torch away from the always fashionable Williams sisters.
“I am a complete beauty junkie and being in the fashion business, I stay ahead of the trends,” stated Williams.
Serena Williams To Play World Team Tennis 04.30.2008 WASHINGTON - Serena Williams has agreed to play four nights of seventeen season meets for the Washington Kastles in World Team Tennis this summer.
Serena Williams Steamrolls At The French Open 05.26.2008 PARIS - Serena Williams lost the first two games at the French Open Sunday in round one but then won 12 of the next 13 to beat fellow American Ashley Harkleroad 6-2, 6-1.
Venus Williams won her fifth Wimbledon title on Saturday after successfully defeating her younger sister Serena Williams.
Serena Williams accepts her titles as one of the “Sexiest Female Athletes In The World” in the September issue of Men’s Fitness.
Serena Williams has been accused of being ‘classless’ during a press conference following her U.S Open 2007 loss to Justine Henin.
Serena Williams was spied leaving celebrity magnet Mr.
Williams then won the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California. Open, Williams defeated Hingis in the semifinals to reach her second Grand Slam final before losing to sister Venus.
Williams defeated World No. Upon her return to the tour, Williams won three consecutive singles titles.
Serena then defeated Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in the final. At the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Williams won her fifth career singles title there, tying Steffi Graf for the most singles titles at this tournament.
Serena trailed 5″3 in both sets and saved two set points in the first set and eight set points in the second set.
Serena and Venus then teamed to win the women’s doubles title without dropping a set the entire tournament, defeating Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur in the final. Williams then played four World Team Tennis matches for the Washington Kastles, contributing 49 points for her team.
The Williams sisters also teamed up to take the women’s doubles title at Wimbledon, while Serena picked up singles titles in Hanover, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Her second is when Serena passed the prank on her sister Venus after both Serena and Venus were fighting with a fraud during a photoshoot with some handicapped people.
In 2005, Williams guest starred in an episode of the twelfth season of ER. Welsh indie band, Super Furry Animals, sang a track on their 2003 album Phantom Power called “Venus and Serena” - dedicated to the sisters.
In April 2005, MTV announced plans to broadcast a reality show around the lives of Serena and Venus Williams ; however, ABC Family ended up airing the show.
Macci had already helped the careers of Jennifer Capriati and Mary Pierce, among others. Soon Richard, who had struck a deal on behalf of his daughters with a major clothing company, was able to move the rest of the Williams family to West Palm Beach, to be near Serena and Venus.
Williams won her singles match and doubles match during the tie between the United States and Russia in the final of the Fed Cup.
In the third round, however, Williams defeated fifth-seeded Nadia Petrova after Petrova had served for the match in the second set. This was her first win over a top 10 player since defeating Lindsay Davenport in the 2005 Australian Open final.
Williams reached six other quarterfinals during the year. Williams won her first pro title in doubles at Oklahoma City with sister Venus, becoming the third pair of sisters to win a WTA tour women’s doubles title. Williams, however, lost the final to her older sister Venus in straight sets.
1 Hingis to become the lowest seed to win the title and the second African-American woman to win a Grand Slam singles tournament.
Williams then defeated Safina in the semifinals 6″3, 6″2. TENNIS Magazine placed Williams in 17th place in its list of “40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era.”
Williams was seeded first at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California. That injury caused Williams to withdraw from the East West Bank Classic in Los Angeles the following week.
At the year-ending WTA Tour Championships, Williams saved eight match points before defeating Capriati in the semifinals. She then won the final by default when Lindsay Davenport withdrew.
At the China Open in Beijing, Williams defeated the newly crowned U.S. Williams earned enough points there to reach the WTA Tour Championships, where she again lost to Sharapova in the final.
In Los Angeles, Williams defeated Hantuchova in the third round but lost in the semifinals to Jelena Jankovic 6″4, 6″3. Williams teamed with sister Venus to win the women’s doubles title at the French Open but lost in the third round in singles at that tournament.
Williams was the fifth-seeded player at the French Open. Although she was the only former winner of this tournament in this year’s draw, she lost in the third round to 27th-seeded Katarina Srebotnik 6″4, 6″4.
At the Beijing Olympics, Williams was the fourth-seeded player in singles. She then lost to fifth-seeded and eventual gold-medalist Elena Dementieva in the quarterfinals 3″6, 6″4, 6″3.
At the clay court Tier I Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, Williams defeated, for the fourth consecutive time, second-seeded Maria Sharapova in the quarterfinals 7″5, 4″6, 6″1. In the final, Williams defeated Vera Zvonareva to capture her tenth career Tier I title and first clay court title since the 2002 French Open.
As the eighth seed at the French Open, Williams lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Henin 6″4, 6″3. During her fourth round match against Daniela Hantuchova, Williams collapsed from an acute muscle spasm while down 4″2 in the second set.
7 Steffi Graf in the three-set final.
At Wimbledon, Williams was defeated in the third round by fellow American Jill Craybas 6″3, 7″6.
Williams finished the year ranked World No. Williams’s older sister, Yetunde Price, was murdered on the morning of September 14, 2003, by gunshots as she passed by in a car driven by a man in the Compton area.
In the summer, Williams won the hard court tournament in Los Angeles, defeating World No. 9.
In March at the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Williams lost to sister Venus for the first time since 2001.
In March, Williams won the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, becoming the second of only five unseeded Tier I champions in WTA history.
Williams is also effective at the net, employing solid volleys and powerful overheads. Although Williams’s forehand is among the most powerful shots in the women’s game, her backhand is considered to be one of the best, if not the best, on the Women’s Tennis Association tour.
In the first round of competition, Williams matched up against surfer Laird Hamilton and former NFL quarterback John Elway. That same year, Williams appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, where he challenged Williams to a tennis match on the Wii video game console.
In an outfit that had a near-topless effect, Williams wore a red gown with strips of sheer fabric. Venus also appeared as one of her models, showing her latest designs.
Williams explains how her deceased older sister Yetunde inspired her to win her third Australian Open singles title in 2007: “I just said, ‘Serena, this has to be motivating. Open, Williams said about Martina Hingis, “She just speaks her mind.
Williams finished 2002 with a 56″5 record, eight singles titles, and the World No. 1 ranking.
Williams competed in the Moorilla Hobart International in Tasmania, Australia as a warm-up for the 2007 Australian Open. She reached the final at the year-ending Home Depot Championships but lost to 19-year-old Kim Clijsters 7″5, 6″3.
Williams was the third-seeded player at the French Open and dropped just two sets en route to the final. She then defeated sister Venus 7″5, 6″3.
Williams was the fifth-seeded player at the Tier I Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome and made it to the quarterfinals, where Alize Cornet received a walkover over Williams because of a back injury.
team that won the Hopman Cup for the fifth time in Perth, Australia.
Williams suffered a stomach muscle strain during the match after leading 6″4, 2″1, consequently Williams began delivering serves barely reaching the 100 mph mark and Sharapova eventually won the match, 4″6, 6″2, 6″4.
Williams played only one clay court tournament in Europe before the French Open.
Williams is known for her unusual and colorful outfits on court. This was the first time in professional tennis history that two sisters had won titles in the same week.
At the Tier II Bangalore Open in India, Serena defeated sister Venus in the semifinals 6″3, 3″6, 7″6 after Serena saved a match point while trailing 6″5 in the third set.
The 21-year-old Yuan, who went through three qualifying rounds to reach the main draw, broke Williams twice during the first set and made Williams work for several points.
I felt like a played better ground stroke-wise than I did in my first match,” said Williams.
The more experienced Williams proved too strong for Yuan as the American broke again in the eighth game and finished opening set at 6-3.
Williams, a 2002 Rome and French Open winner, revealed she is looking forward the upcoming European claycourt tournaments.
Williams also defeated world number one Justine Henin of Belgium in the quarterfinals 6-2, 6-0.
Williams next plays Wendesday or Thursday in round two 129th ranked Mathilde Johansson of France.
Serena Williams through second round of Australian Open - The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
