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Richard Williams will be on a plane to LA with his new young wife while his daughters fight for the fourth time in a Wimbledon women's final Saturday.

New Wimbledon champion Serena Williams is already thinking about winning her 12th Grand Slam singles title to draw level with her idol Billie Jean King.

There comes a time when you just get embarrassed for the women's tennis tour; when it is painful to watch these other players, so inadequately armed, go into full kamikaze flight against the Williams sisters.

The serenity ... Serena Williams screams in jubilation on her way to an epic three-set victory over Russian No.4 seed Elena Dementieva in the Wimbledon semi-finals yesterday.

Reporting from Wimbledon, England -- In a women's game supposedly savaged by anarchy, ailing as a hard-to-market hodgepodge with the No.

Professional tennis is here to stay in Eastbourne. That certainly did not look the case two years ago when the Devonshire Park showpiece was at its lowest ebb since it began in 1975.

Oudin, who faces 11th seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the fourth round of Wimbledon, was only seven when she first fell in love with tennis after being captivated by the images of Venus and Serena Williams dominating the grass court Grand Slam .

Venus Williams of the United States, the third seed and defending champion, has won her Wimbledon third-round match 6-0 6-4 against Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro.

After a week of shrieks, wails and squeals dominating the headlines at Wimbledon, outgoing WTA chief Larry Scott said the tour could no longer turn a deaf ear to the grunting phenomenon that has swept women's tennis.

Premature retirements and loss of form are robbing the women's game of the sort of great rivalries that have kept fans enthralled in years gone by Serbia's Jelena Jankovic has struggled with her form in recent months and slipped to No6 in the world rankings.

The competitive fire is still burning in Venus Williams and, unlike some of her contemporaries who extinguished their careers early, the five-times Wimbledon champion plans to stick around until at least the 2012 Olympics.

"When she talks about Wimbledon, the tenor of her voice changes," says Billie Jean King of the elder Williams sister.

When Justine Henin suddenly retired from tennis in 2008, fans assumed that she would spend her time running two tennis academies in Belgium and the United States.

Maria Sharapova needed less than 70 minutes to reach the quarter-finals of the Aegon Classic on Thursday Maria Sharapova did not seek to inspire confidence that the damaged shoulder which threatened her career is now in better health, even though she needed less than 70 minutes for two wins while reaching the quarter-finals of the Aegon Classic at ...

The one-handed backhand is a beautiful and versatile shot favored by former Grand Slam champions Steffi Graf, Justine Henin and Amelie Mauresmo.

Maria Sharapova refused to be carried away with optimism about her Wimbledon chances after racing into the Aegon Classic quarter-finals with two double-quick wins on Thursday.

It should be a classic match, but all-Russian matches, like all-Williams disappoint more often than not.

Now that the French Open euphoria has died down and there's a bit of a lull in between, as we head to the third Grand Slam of the year in two weeks, I decided to relive old memories ... by Sudeshna Banerjee 1 22 reads History Now that the French Open euphoria has died down and there's a bit of a lull in between, as we head to the third Grand Slam ...

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