Tag Archives: Venus Williams

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US Open, Opens with a Bang!

Venus Williams celebrated after winning her match against Vera Dushevina at the U.S. Open on Monday.

After watching the first half of pre-season football, I tuned in to the US Open, probably my favorite tennis tournament.  Venus played a Russian girl, Vera Dushevina who almost took her clean out the tournament in two sets.  The way Venus was playing making mistake after mistake, I thought she was a goner! 

But she flipped the script and just dominated Dushevina as if she were an amateur.  It was clear after consecutive aces and wins off the serve that Venus was all in her head.

Venus also has tendinitis in one of her knees.  That doesn’t get better over a tournament, only with weeks of rest.  Will be interesting to see what happens over the next couple weeks.  Regardless I know there is some exciting tennis on the horizon on both the men’s and women’s sides.

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Sporting At It’s Best!!!!

Serena Williams hits a backhand during her 6-4, 7-5 victory over Jelena Jankovic to capture last night's U.S. Open crown.

Big ups to Serena Williams for winning the US Open this past weekend.   She performed magnificently and the best part about it was seeing the pure joy in her eyes and on her smile as she jumped up and down for joy after the final point.   It was back to the basics of pure sport, competition and the joy of accomplishment. 

In this day and age of controversy, sterioids, gambling and the likes, between some of what I have seen when Tiger won his last match despite torn knee ligaments, this summer with some of the Olympics and this US Open Championship, the kid in me was satisfied with the genuine love of sport and competition.