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Williams Sisters Complete Wimbledon Win With Doubles Glory
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Don't you just love them?
The American doubles team of sisters Venus and Serena Williams returned to Wimbledon’s Centre Court to win the women’s doubles title on Saturday night.
Hours after Venus beat Serena in straight sets in the third all-Williams singles final at the All England Club, the sisters teamed up to beat fellow American Lisa Raymond and Australia’s Samantha Stosur 6-2 6-2.
The Williams sisters broke twice in each set to complete a double they last achieved in 2002, when Serena clinched the singles crown.
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Pacific Life Open Men's Doubles Draw Released
Friday, March 14, 2008
Round 1 - Men's Doubles
Jeff Coetzee, RSA and Wesley Moodie, RSA
vs
Philipp Kohlschreiber, GER and Jarkko Nieminen, FIN
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, FRA and Sebastien Grosjean, FRA
vs
Richard Gasquet FRA and Robert Lindstedt,SWE
AO Update: Venus and Serena Double The Power
Thursday, January 17, 2008
American sisters Venus and Serena Williams doubled the trouble for the Australian doubles team of Monique Adamczak and Christina Wheeler defeating them in the first round of doubles 7-5, 6-1.
The sisters powered their way through the match with their usual big
serves and fierce net action. A couple of times Adamczak and Wheeler looked as if they were playing dodge ball, HA! No one was injured, so I'll enjoy the humor in it. The Aussie crowd didn't think that it was so funny though. They booed the sisters every time one of their shots almost hit the Australian pair.
The other action during the match occurred when Venus and Serena disagreed with a line call and couldn't get a reasonable explanation from the umpire. She caught an earful from the sisters. At one point Venus asked her "then what are you out here for?" Things eventually settled down and the sisters did what they came to do, kick butt!
Australian Open Releases Doubles Draw
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Women's Doubles Teams
Stephanie Foretz, France and Selima Sfar, Tunisia
(Won 1st round)
Venus Williams, USA and Serena Williams
(have not played yet)
Men's Doubles Team
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France and Sebastien Grosjean, France
(have not played yet)
Jeff Coetzee, South Africa and Wesley Moodie, South Africa
Venus and Serena Doubling Up At The Australian Open
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tennis fans can expect a double dose of action from the most high-profile siblings in world sport after Venus and Serena Williams today confirmed their intention to play doubles at next year's Australian Open.
The Williams sisters have not played doubles at Melbourne Park since they won the coveted title for the second time in three years in 2003.
The pair played their first doubles match together in four years at Wimbledon this year before withdrawing in the second round because of injury.
They haven't returned to the court together since.
Because injuries have kept them off the doubles court for so long they now only have a nominal ranking of 9999.
Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said he was thrilled to hear of their intention to play doubles.
“The Williams sisters in full flight on the same side of the net is one of the great sights in tennis,” Tiley said.
“They are also one of the most skilled pairings on the world circuit with an incredibly successful record in doubles.”
The Williams sisters are one of only five pairings in women's tennis history to win a career doubles grand slam.
In all, they have won six majors (Wimbledon and Australian Open twice, US and French) and an Olympic gold medal in Sydney in 2000.
“It is great news for Australian tennis fans that they are coming here to play singles and to try and recapture their doubles crown,” Tiley said.
“We can't get enough of the Williams sisters, especially after Serena's amazing effort in 2007,” Tiley said.
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Are The Frenchmen Playing Tag? Tsonga Is It Today
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Personally, I find this new saga of Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Sebastien Grosjean quite amusing! Lately they've been playing doubles together, and doing well I might add. It was Grosjean that knocked Tsonga out of the singles draw in Lyon last week and the two of them won the doubles title in the same tournament.
Turn around today and Tsonga knocks Grosjean out of the singles draw of the BNP Paribas Masters and the two of them win their doubles match against Allegro and Linstedt.
They should keep this up, it's entertaining!
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I Didn't Really Think They'd Beat The Bryan Brothers
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Bob and Mike Bryan became the first team to win at least 10 titles in a season since 1996 - when Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde captured 12 titles – at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors on Sunday.
The top-seeded Americans overwhelmed the first-time pairing of James Blake and Mark Knowles 6-1, 6-1 in just 43 minutes.
It was their third title in Basel, following victories in 2002 (d. Knowles-Nestor) and 2004 (d. Arnold Ker-Hood).
The Bryans didn’t allow their opponents any chance to establish themselves in the final. The pair ran through the first set in 21 minutes, with breaks of serve in the fourth and sixth games.
It was a similar story in the second set, as Blake and Knowles dropped their serve in the first, fifth and seventh games. The Bryans won all 12-service points in the second set - and 28 of 35 points overall.
The Stanford ATP Doubles Race winners have a 72-9-season record, which includes titles at the Australian Open, Las Vegas, Houston, Los Angeles, Washington and ATP Masters Series events in Miami, Monte-Carlo, Hamburg and Madrid.
The Bryan brothers are at No. 5 among all-time doubles title leaders with 43 trophies, after Woodbridge/Woodforde (61), Peter Fleming/John McEnroe and Bob Hewitt/Frew McMillan (57) and Sergio Casal/Emilio Sanchez (44).
Blake drops to 5-2 lifetime in ATP doubles finals, while Knowles falls to 46-34 in title-matches.
The Bryans earned the first prize of €45,750, while Blake and Knowles split €26,900 in prize money.
Source - ATP
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Blake and Knowles Doubles in Basel, Who Knew?!
Saturday, October 27, 2007
James Blake and Mark Knowles needed an astonishing 13 match points before finally upsetting second seeds Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyett 7-5, 6-7(5), 12-10 (Match TB) in the semifinals of the Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel. In Sunday's final they will play top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan.
In the second set Blake and Knowles squandered three match points at 5-4 and two more at 6-5. In the third set Match TB they had six consecutive match points at 9-
3 and another at 10-9 before converting their 13th at 11-10.
"Today was a fantastic, thrilling match," Knowles said. "We had a lot of match points early and it took us a long time to close it out but I think that's a credit to how good the other guys are under pressure.
"I've been playing for so long I figured that I'd seen everything. But that's definitely the most match points I've ever taken to close out a match. But the important thing is we won the last one and got the job done.
"I'm having so much fun playing with James and to play the No. 1 team in the world makes for an exciting final.
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It's A Good News, Bad News Day For Tsonga
THE BAD NEWS FIRST: Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's winning ways were brought to a halt today by countryman Sebastien Grosjean. Earlier today in a semifinal match in the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon, Grosjean defeated Tsonga 6-1, 6-2.
THE GOOD NEWS: Tsonga and Grosjean are teammates in the doubles draw of this same event, and they defeated the doubles pairing of fellow Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Nicolas Mahut 6-2, 6-7(4), 10-4.
Well, Halloween is coming, it's time for weird things.
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