Venus battles past gutsy Mirza to reach last 16
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Eighth seed Venus Williams survived her toughest test at the Australian Open to beat Indian Sania Mirza 7-6 6-4 and reach the fourth round on Saturday.
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Venus Williams stayed on course for a fourth Wimbledon crown when she breathtakingly demolished Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-3 in a brutal fourth round triumph on Wednesday.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova advanced to the final of the Swisscom Challenge, defeating fellow Russian Elena Dementieva 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in one of Saturday's semifinals. The fourth-seeded Sharapova, who eliminated Venus Williams in the quarterfinals, extended her winning streak to 12 matches.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova of Russia beat former world number one Venus Williams of the United States 6-3, 6-4 on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Zurich Challenge WTA tennis tournament.
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Venus Williams advanced to the second  round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday but had to work hard for her  6-3, 7-6 victory against Hungary's Petra Mandula.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova beat  former world number one Venus Williams 6-3, 6-4 on Friday to  reach the semi-finals of the $1.3 million Zurich Challenge  event.
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Venus Williams pummeled second seed Maria Sharapova 6-1 6-3 in the fourth round of Wimbledon on Wednesday, using her power to outplay the Russian whose serving went from bad to worse.
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Venus Williams followed her sister Serena out of the Australian Open in the quarterfinals, both in losses to Serbian players. Venus went down 7-6 (3), 6-4 to fourth-seeded Ana Ivanovic on Wednesday, a day after defending champion Serena lost to No. 3 Jelena Jankovic.
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Venus Williams came through a stiff test  against Serbian schoolgirl Ana Ivanovic on Thursday to book her  place in the Zurich Challenge quarter-finals.
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MEMPHIS, Tennessee  - Former world number one Venus Williams beat Romanian Ioana Raluca Olaru 6-3 6-2 on Friday to reach the Memphis International final, her first event in more than four months because of injury.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova beat former winner Venus Williams 6-3, 6-4 in the Swisscom Challenge quarterfinals on Friday and extended her winning streak to 11 matches.
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Venus Williams was upset yesterday in a Kremlin Cup quarterfinal for a number of reasons, her 10 double faults and 29 unforced errors the most significant ones. Playing her first tournament since losing to Lindsay Davenport in the US Open, Williams was routed by Elena Bovina , 6-3, 6-2, in Moscow in a little more than an hour. The 19-year-old ...
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American eighth seed Venus Williams moved a step closer to realising her dream of winning an elusive Australian Open title Monday when she set up a quarter-final showdown with fourth seed Ana Ivanovic.
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Former world number one Serena  Williams ended the run of Indian wildcard Sania Mirza at the  Australian Open on Friday, beating the 18-year-old 6-1, 6-4 to  reach the fourth round.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova beat Venus Williams 6-3, 6-4 in the Swisscom Challenge quarter-finals yesterday, extending her winning streak to 11 matches.
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Venus Williams came through a stiff test against Serbian schoolgirl Ana Ivanovic on Thursday to book her place in the Zurich Challenge quarter-finals.
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Sania Mirza says she will take a lot of positives out of her loss to Venus Williams at the Australian Open on Saturday, and likes to think she has done her country proud.