In A Battle Of Sisters, Serena Williams Defeats Venus Williams At Wimbledon

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In A Battle Of Sisters, Serena Williams Defeats Venus Williams At Wimbledon
By Ken Miller, Lawn Tennis Analyst, Posted: Monday, July 20, 2015 6:38pm PST USA

LONDON--Earlier this month Wimbledon in round four, the top seeded Serena Williams of the USA faced off versus her own sister, the 16th seeded Venus Williams in a hard hitting contest the top ranked Serena won 6-4, 6-3.

Venus, the older of the two sisters, hits many groundstrokes harder than Serena but also commits several more errors as a result of the lack of topspin which she replaces with more flat groundstrokes.

As such, right on key Venus opened the match with several costly errors and quickly dropped serve to trail 0-1.

sisters Venus Williams and Serena Williams of the USA

Displaying the lethal power that propelled her to tennis’ top ranking, Serena Williams powered a 121 miles per hour ace down the tee to hold serve and lead 5-3.

Serena broke serve again at 3-2 to lead 4-2 following two Venus forehand errors and two backhand errors.

Serving for set one leading 5-4, Serena struck two aces out wide to lead 40-0.

Another 103 miles per hour ace out wide from Serena on set point two ended the set 6-4.

Set two stayed on serve early with Venus holding serve to lead 3-2 before Serena held serve as well to level the set at 3 all.

However with Venus serving at 15 all, Serena hit a down the line backhand winner followed by a crosscourt forehand winner to lead 15-40.

Venus reached deuce before Serena struck a crosscourt backhand winner to set up another chance to break serve.

And for all her improved fight from set one to set two, Venus hit a fatal double fault to drop her service game and trail 3-4.

Displaying the lethal combination of topspin, power and consistency that propelled her to tennis’ top ranking, Serena struck back to back aces to take a 40-0 lead in her final service game of the day.

At 40-15, Serena then powered a 121 miles per hour ace down the tee to hold serve and lead 5-3.

With Venus serving to stay in the match, Serena struck a down the line backhand winner to lead 15-0.

Venus then continued her slow fade for the day as she netted a crosscourt backhand before double-faulting to trail 0-40 and face three match points.

However one match point was all it took for Serena to power into the quarterfinals as Venus struck a crosscourt backhand long to end the match before the sisters would meet in an embrace at the net.