Williams Sisters - Australian Open Women's Doubles Tennis Players
Serena Williams and Venus Starr Williams took the tennis world by storm when they became the most formidable singles and doubles players to take to the sporting stage in the late 1990's. Serena has 11 doubles titles to her name, and her older sister, Venus, has one less, with 10 women's doubles titles.They paired up to win the Ladies doubles match at Wimbledon 2008.
What makes them incomparably one of the toughest duos in world tennis, are their incredibly powerful ground strokes, and their booming serves.
In 1999 the African-American Williams sisters paired up to win their first grand slam doubles title at the French Open by taming the clay courts of Roland Garros. Later on they lifted the doubles title at the US Open. The match was aptly held at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows, New York. He too was an African American, and the last, prior to the Williams sisters, to win a major tennis title – Wimbledon in 1975.
In a very successful year 2000, the pair teamed up again to take the Wimbledon doubles title, and managed to end the year off with a very fine second win at the final grand slam of the year, the US Open.
They later took Olympic Gold at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics for the women's doubles, after winning their 22nd straight doubles match. Venus made history yet again by becoming the only women since 1924 to capture gold in both the singles and doubles.
In 2001 they lived up to their reputation as champions, and took their first Australian Open doubles title.
2002 was a good year for the Williams sisters, Australian Open women's doubles tennis players of note. Venus and Serena took home the doubles title at Wimbledon for the second time. In the same year, Serena won the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open singles title by defeating her sister and doubles partner, Venus, in every single match!
They claimed their second Australian Open doubles title in January 2003, by defeating Pascual and Suarez in three sets. A family tragedy, which robbed the girls of their elder sister in September 2003, seemed to put the lid on their illustrious careers.
The incredible sisters had now achieved an awesome career Grand Slam in doubles to add to their singles triumphs.
In 2007 the sisters requested a wild card at Wimbledon and got it. This began a slow, but sure upward move on the rankings, in both singles and doubles. Although they have been relatively inactive since 2003 due to injury and fatigue, there is no ways these two tennis players will ever give up.
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