Sunday, July 06, 2008

Venus Williams wins Fifth Wimbledon title

Venus Williams beat younger sister Serena to claim her fifth Wimbledon crown on Saturday.

The defending champion recovered from a whirlwind start to land her seventh Grand Slam title courtesy of a 7-5, 6-4 win. Venus paid tribute to the performance of Serena, who had looked as if she might blast her big sister off court in the opening games.

She said that she couldn't believe it was five, mainly because she was in the final against and five seemed so far away.

She also admitted that she never found it easy to take on Serena, who comfortably won their previous Wimbledon finals, in 2002 and 2003.

Serena, who had won five of her previous six Grand Slam finals against her sister, admitted things had not gone as she expected.

Serena said that she was happy that at least one of them could win and that they were glad to be in the final.

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