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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ATHENS, Greece - 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...
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The successive oustings of the Williams sisters by Justine Henin shows that Venus and Serena can not afford any more career dives.
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Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport were a study in contrasts during first-round wins at the Australian Open.
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All the emotion Venus Williams crammed into staving off elimination against Lindsay Davenport at the U.S. Open saved the 25th edition of their rivalry from being a dud.
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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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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova ousted Venus Williams in the quarterfinals of the Swisscom Challenge Friday, 6-3, 6-4. The high-profile match featured plenty of unforced errors
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Atlanta finished a dismal road trip with another loss. Arizona did the same to close out a terrible homestand. Meanwhile, the New York Mets seem to win everywhere they play.
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American eighth seed Venus Williams was brilliant but erratic as she reached the Australian Open second round Tuesday, while highly-rated Serb Ana Ivanovic's nerves almost ended her campaign.
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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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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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ENNIFER CAPRIATI had already dispatched Serena Williams, with a little help from the flawed human eye. Justine Henin-Hardenne was long gone, leaving a vacuum at the top of the draw.
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Jennifer Capriati beats fellow American and rival Serena Williams to reach the last four of the US Open.
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NEW YORK -- Rafael Nadal recovered from a slow start, Venus Williams overcame a few glitches and Justine Henin ran right into the next round Wednesday at a U.S. Open where the favorites kept rolling.
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ZURICH, Switzerland -- Venus Williams avenged her controversial loss at this year&#39;s Wimbledon tournament with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Karolina Sprem at the Swisscom Challenge on Tuesday.
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Crowd favorite Jennifer Capriati never quite figured out how to return the crazy curveballs served up by Elena Dementieva and lost 6-0, 2-6, 7-6 (5) in the U.S. Open semifinals Friday. Earlier, an injured Lindsay Davenport hobbled away with a hip injury after Svetlana Kuznetsova beat her 1-6, 6-2, 6-4. "Russians are here," Kuznetsova said.
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Venus Williams and Vera Zvonareva  registered second-round victories at the Advanta Championships  in Philadelphia Thursday to remain in the chase for places in  next week's lucrative end-of-season tournament.