Venus Advances at Advanta Championships
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Venus Williams stretches for the ball during her first round match with Lisa Raymond at the Advanta Championships Tuesday, Nov 2, 2004 in Villanova.
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Venus Williams climbed 14 spots in the world rankings on Monday, following her triumph at Wimbledon, to re-enter the top 20 for the first time in a year.
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Villanova, PA (Sports Network) - Russian Nadia Petrova defeated fellow countrywoman Anastasia Myskina in quarterfinal action Friday at the Advanta Championships.
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WIMBLEDON, England  -- Venus Williams played outstanding tennis again Thursday, reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon by beating No. 5 Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 6-4.
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Venus Williams unleashed the fastest serve by a woman at a grand slam as the American kept the Stars and Stripes fluttering at the French Open on Wednesday.
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Venus Williams opened her quest to claim a &#36;1.3 million gold-and-diamond trophy with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Virginie Razzano of France on Wednesday, reaching the Diamond Games quarterfinals.
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Venus Williams barely kept alive her hopes of qualifying for next week&#39;s WTA Tour Championships. Williams, seeded fifth, survived a third-set tiebreaker to outlast Yuilana Fedak of the Ukraine, 6-4 2-6 7-6
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Maria Sharapova posted a convincing 6-3 6-4 victory over seventh seed Venus Williams in their first-ever meeting at the Swisscom Challenge indoor tournament in Zurich.
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Wimbledon champion MariaSharapova beat Venus Williams, 6-3, 6-4, in the Swisscom Challenge quarterfinals yesterday in Zurich to extend her winning streak to 11 matches.
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Venus Williams walloped and screamed her way into her sixth Wimbledon final with a 6-2 6-4 victory over Serbian teenager Ana Ivanovic on Friday.
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Top-seeded Amelie Mauresmo of France shook off a slow start yesterday to beat Russian Vera Zvonareva 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 to successfully defend her Advanta Championship title for her fifth tournament victory of the season.
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Venus Williams of the US returns a shot during a match against Elena Bovina of Russia at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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MEMPHIS, Tennessee  - Venus Williams continued her comeback from injury by reaching the Memphis International quarter-finals with a 6-4 6-4 win over 16-year-old Dane Caroline Wozniacki on Tuesday.
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Venus Williams strode into the semi-finals of Wimbledon on Thursday while tournament organizers cast anxious glances to the sky.
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Former champion Venus Williams showed flashes of her old brilliance when she defeated Czech qualifier Hana Sromova 6-2 6-2 at Wimbledon on Thursday.
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Top seed Amelie Mauresmo rallied to  beat Russia's sixth-seeded Vera Zvonareva 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, and  complete a successful defense of her Advanta championship title  in Philadelphia Sunday.
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Twice champion Venus Williams overcame early jitters to beat nemesis Jelena Jankovic 4-6 6-1 7-6 on Wednesday and secure a clash with world number one Justine Henin in the U.S. Open semi-finals.