Wimbledon 2009- Venus Williams v Serena Williams headtohead
Date published : 03 Jul 2009 - 17:15:39
2001 US Open – Venus won 6-2, 6-4
Coming into the final without having dropped a set, Venus dominated from start to finish, breaking Serena's serve five times to retain the title she had won twelve months earlier.
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Again, Venus reached the final without dropping a set, but this time she was pipped to the Coupe Suzanne Lenglen by her determined younger sister. It remains the only time either Williams has appeared in a French Open final.
2002 Wimbledon – Serena won 7-6, 6-3
By this stage the sisters were numbers one and two in the world, and it was the world number two who triumphed in Wimbledon's first all-Williams final. It was Serena's first Wimbledon title, denying her sister a third in a row.
2002 US Open – Serena won 6-4 6-3
It was almost the reverse of a year earlier, as Serena produced a consummate performance to blow Venus off the court and claim her second US Open.
2003 Australian Open – Serena won 7-6, 3-6, 6-4
The sisters' fourth consecutive grand slam final, this was also the closest of them all. Serena edged a tight final set to complete her 'Serena Slam'; Venus became the first player to lose four consecutive Grand Slam finals.
2003 Wimbledon – Serena won 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
Despite giving up the first set, Serena continued to exert her stranglehold on an injury-hit Venus by taking her second Wimbledon title and highlighting the gulf in class between the Williams sisters and the rest..
2008 Wimbledon – Venus won 7-5, 6-4
Venus finally managed to break her Serena hoodoo, capturing her fifth Wimbledon crown. It was a competitive, hard-fought match, refuting a controversial claim by Elena Dementieva that matches between the sisters were fixed in advance.
Head-to-head record:
Total: Venus 10, Serena 10
At grand slams: Venus 5, Serena 6
Grand slam finals: Venus 2, Serena 5
At Wimbledon: Venus 2, Serena 2
