Venus Williams
Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williamsis an American professional tennis player, who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 6 in singles as of July 25, 2016. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three occasions, for a total of 11 weeks. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on February 25, 2002, becoming the first black American woman to achieve this feat during the Open Era...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth17 June 1980
CityLynwood, CA
CountryUnited States of America
It was a challenging match. She's a player with variety. Sometimes she's playing harder and hitting with spin. But that's good for me,
I was playing decent and she started playing really bad and it totally threw me off. She was playing weird. Next thing I knew I was playing as bad as she was. She started hitting these weird shots, short balls. ... I guess maybe it was a good strategy. It just threw me off.
Well, I'm very disappointed, obviously. I just seemed to get to a point there, I just couldn't pull my game together. Just I don't know what happened. I don't know. So I'm really disappointed, but I feel like in general, I was in good form. I just somehow fell off my form.
Today was a good day. It was windy, so the conditions were a little strange like that. My toss got thrown off.
It was a comedy of errors, ... She's definitely a good player but I don't think she came out there and beat me. I just kept making error after error.
It's always hard to recover after a loss. . . . I have to know when it's time to step up, not to revert back to bad habits but to keep ahead with the good ones.
We play similar games, ... We're good at covering the court and hitting hard. What's different is I'm able to play that game a little better, serve and return better, run a few more balls down. Usually when we play, I'm able to play that same game, but I step up more.
I think my serve was really good today. Spin serve, tricky serve, all kinds of serve,
I just tried to stay positive and not float away mentally, ... I'm at the end of the line, I've arrived in the finals. It's good for me. Got to see what's left tomorrow. And even if there's nothing left like today, I'll still find something. I just wanted to win.
If I had just 10 less errors, I think this match is a different story. Obviously, she's a very good player and, you know, she stuck in there.
I'm feeling good, ... I think it was good for me to be away -- I think it extended my career. At this point I prefer to do tennis more than anything else.
I'm really dedicated to getting my ranking up. I feel like, wow, I'm a very good player. There are all these people ranked ahead of me. After a while, I'm tired of being ranked low.
We're going to try to work on our rankings this fall, ... We both just want to win the match, whether she's playing me or if she's playing someone else.
It was tough. It was sad. I'd like to see an American win this. He obviously had a great chance. But it happens. That's sports. The best part is that he'll have another chance very soon.