Venus, Capriati end season with defeats
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Venus Williams and Jennifer Capriati&#39;s hopes of qualifying for next week&#39;s lucrative season finale were crushed by quarter-final defeats at the Advanta Championships in Philadelphia on Friday.
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Andy Roddick hit one last errant shot into the net and hung his head, his medal hopes over. A short while later, Venus Williams was gone, too. In back-to-back stunners at the Olympic tennis tournament, Roddick was upset by No. 16 Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 6-4, 6-4, and defending gold medalist Williams lost to Mary Pierce of France 6-4, 6-4. Both were third-round matches.
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Names Defending Pilot Pen champion Jennifer Capriati was upset yesterday in New Haven, losing, 6-4, 7-5, to eighth-seeded Nathalie Dechy . It was Dechy's first career win over Capriati in six tries. &quot;When you never win against somebody, you think it's going to be one time,&quot; Dechy said. &quot;This morning I felt really well and I thought, `Today will be ...
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It was just about a year ago that Jennifer Capriati had this very same feeling. There she was, in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the lights glaring, more than 20,000 fans screaming. Only the opponent was different, as Capriati faced Justine Henin-Hardenne, serving for what would become one of the most important matches of her career. But that night, ...
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NEW YORK The rivalry match at the United States Open fizzled, but the mismatch sizzled. After Lindsay Davenport defeated Venus Williams, 7-5, 6-4, in a match that was ho-hum until the last game, Nadia Petrova
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Venus Williams gave a supreme effort in the Fed Cup semi-final against Russia after coming off the high of winning her fourth Wimbledon title but came up short in Sunday's decisive doubles match in Stowe, Vermont.
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Venus Williams offers some fashion advice after making a slew of errors in a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Greece's Eleni Daniilidou in the first round of the Australian Open.
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Sport: Venus Williams beats Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3 6-4 .
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Wimbledon champion Venus Williams was pushed to the limit before beating third seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia 4-6 6-1 7-6 on Wednesday to reach the U.S. Open semi-finals.
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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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Venus Williams easily repelled Maria Sharapova in a battle of former champions on Wednesday, the day when irritated players finally lost patience with Wimbledon's arcane scheduling.
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Venus Williams was upset by unseeded Elena Bovina 6-3, 6-2, in a Kremlin Cup quarterfinal Friday that lasted little more than an hour.
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After several missed calls by the line judge and chair umpire in Tuesday&#39;s Jennifer Capriati-Serena Williams match that went against Williams, ESPN Research has compiled the top-10 controversies involving Serena and Venus Williams.
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Trailing 3-5 in the third set, three-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams rallies past Akiko Morigami 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 in a third-round match Monday. Up next: Maria Sharapova.
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Venus Williams overcame struggles with her serve after a four-month layoff to defeat Akiko Morigami of Japan 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 Monday night in the opening round of the Cellular South Cup, a Tier III tournament.
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ATHENS : Title-holder Venus Williams of the United States crashed out of the Olympic women&#39;s singles tennis tournament here losing a third round tie 6-4, 6-4 to France&#39;s Mary Pierce.
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Venus Williams avenged her controversial  exit from this year's Wimbledon tournament with a 6-2, 6-2,  victory over Croatia's Karolina Sprem at the Zurich Challenge  Tuesday.