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Venus won the match and her fourth Grand Slam singles title. Williams also became only the sixth woman in history to win the singles titles at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in consecutive years, the others being Martina Navratilova (twice), Steffi Graf (twice), Althea Gibson, Maureen Connolly Brinker, and Helen Wills Moody (twice).
Won: Lost: Total: WR Singles: Grand Slam: 7: 9: 16: 0.44 ... This is a list of the main career statistics of professional tennis player Venus Williams. Williams in 2018.
The Wiliams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price.
Formerly ranked No. 1 in the world in both singles and doubles, Williams has won seven Grand Slam singles titles — five at Wimbledon and two at the U.S. Open — along with seven doubles titles ...
Twenty-three Grand Slams in total – seven singles, 14 women’s doubles, two mixed doubles. In all disciplines, she has won 73 titles, over the course of an astonishing 30-year career.
The Grand Slam was the first for Serena in three years, and it was the first final at the French Open ever played by sisters. By reaching the final, Venus and Serena assured themselves of moving up to first and second in the world rankings, respectively. [14] One month later, the Williams sisters again met in a Grand Slam final, at Wimbledon ...
After going pro at 14, Venus became the first unseeded player in the Open Era to reach a Grand Slam final at the US Open in 1997, according to the Olympics. With four gold medals and one silver ...
In 1965, Margaret Court won a record nine titles out of twelve available to a player in the same year: the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. [ citation needed ] In 1985, Martina Navratilova reached the final in all Grand Slam events held that year, equaling the record of eleven final appearances set by Court ...