VENUS, SERENA IN BOTH FINALS

Venus and Serena Williams swept through to the final of the ladies doubles with an emphatic 6-1 6-2 victory over Cara Black and Liezel Huber at Wimbledon.

The sisters, who meet in Saturday's singles final, showed no sign of fatigue en route to a 61-minute win.

Black and Huber fought off several match points before finally succumbing to their opponents' power.

Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs will form their final opposition after wining the second semi-final.

The Australian pair overcome the second-seeded Anabel Medina Garriques and Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 6-2.

After losing the opening set on a tie-break, Stosur, who was beaten by Ana Ivanovic in the third round of the singles competition, and Stubbs found their service range and eventually wore down their Spanish opponents.

VENUS OUT OF FRENCH OPEN

Venus williams crashes out of the third round in French open against Agnes Szavay in straight sets 6-0, 6-4. Venus didnt play good tennis and Agnes played a fantastic tennis and she played with excellent timing and placement. Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam winner, has now fallen at the third round in each of the last three years. Szavay, the 29th seed from Hungary, stormed through the first set and then outplayed Williams in the second to set up a meeting with Dominika Cibulkova.

VENUS, JELENA KUZNETSOVA IN THIRD ROUND

French open has all set to open of 24th May. Venus williams struggled a bit to win her second round against Lucie Safarova. Lucie Safarova was ranking No.46 and played a superb tennis to her fans. Venus managed to get past Lucie Safarova to the third round. Williams fought back strongly to level when the match resumed but had to save a match-point at 4-5 in the decider on her way to a 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 7-5 victory. Venus will play Agnes Szavay of Hungary in her third round.

In another match Jelena Jankovic won against Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova 6-1, 6-2. She played not an excellent tennis eventhough she won to get past the second round. Serbian star Jankovic will play Jarmila Groth of Australia for a place in the last 16.

Svetlana Kuznetsova ranking No.7 won so easily against her opponent Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan 6-0, 6-2. She just crushed the match in 49 minutes. She is more powerful and she has to be watch on for this title.

VENUS WILLIAMS OUT AND ROGER ADVANCES IN MADRID OPEN

Venus williams, 3rd ranked american player defeated to Alisa Kleybanova by 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 on the sidelines of the Madrid Open on Tuesday. Venus joined her sister as serena was out becaus eof her knee injury and now Venus was out becaue of her performance. Serena watched the match from the stands as her sister losing to Alisa on Tuesday.

The match prolonged for about 2 hours and 12 minutes. Venus didnt able to capitalize on her serve as she lost her serve in the final set. Williams consolted her fans by giving a hard message to digest that "I will meet you next year", williams said. Roger Federer won easily against Robin Soderling 6-1, 7-5 as he puts his platform for Roland Garros. Roger said" I will play hard tennis for the upcoming Roland Garros and I will definitely beat Rafeal and I have faced him so much times in my career".

Roger has excellent class and he has skill as well. But Rafeal Nadal is not that easy to predict as he is in top form and he is so young when compared to Roger Federer. While in another Match Andy Murray won over simone Bolelli with 7-6(9), 6-4. Andy Murray may took Roger's position as roger lost most of his matches recently.

SAFINA WILL FACE KUZNETSOVA IN FINALS

Top seeded Safina defeated Venus Williams 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4 on friday to move on to finals to meet Svetlana Kuznetsova in the Italian open. The finals is going to be all Russian Match as both the contenders are Russian. "It was a hard match" said safina. Venus williams fighted well but safina's form continues and she overtook venus quite easily.

Safina and Venus were strong at the baseline and venus often come closer to the nets to finish the point. But it didnt work all the time. From the second set Safina completely taken the game away from Venus as she complete quite easily. In the third set, Safina served out the 3-hour, 9-minute match after committing three double-faults and saving four break points. Safina had 32 winners, compared to 38 for Williams.

Williams, by reaching the semifinals in Rome, is still assured of moving to third in the rankings -- her highest spot in six years.

The final on Saturday will be a repeat of last week's Porsche GP final in Germany, where Kuznetsova defeated Safina in straight sets to capture her first title in almost two years. Both players have been runners-up in Rome, Kuznetsova in 2007 and Safina in 2006.

SAFINA AND VENU IN SEMIFINALS

Dinara Safina won the tight quarterfinals against Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 on Thursday to reach the Italian Open semifinals. Safina lost the first set because of the errors she made. She didnt score quite well and lot of shots went to net and away. Safina after losing the first set didnt start good for second set as the opponent was 3-1 and safina continuously won 11 games to win the match.

Safina is so strong of her backhand and forehand. "It is not easy to be in the No.1 spot" said Safina. During the second set Safina called for the trainer to have her right ankle taped. The 23-year-old Russian, who tripped during her first match here in Rome, said she wanted to avert a bigger injury with the French Open coming up on May 24.

Venus williams won against Agnieszka Radwanska of poland 6-1, 6-2. Venus williams will be playing against Safina in the finals, if both of them won the semifinals. Last time defending champion Jelena Jankovic lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova quite easily in the straight sets.

GOOD SHOW FROM JELENA JANKOVIC

Safina is in good form but she didnt won any title after acquiring the No.1 spot from Serena williams. She reached quarterfinals by passing against Zheng Jie 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (3) on wednesday in the Italian Open. Defending champion Jelena Jankovic also advances to the next round after her opponent retired with an illness.

Safina really played aggressive tennis as she came back strong to take the second and third set. Safina was little disturbed with her game as she is not giving to her best. She needs to focus on tennis rather than answering to serena williams. Serena willimas almost acquired 10 grand slams and safina didnt even won any, so she have to focus on tennis.

Venus Williams initialyy struggled to get past Anna Chakvetadze 6-0, 6-7 (8), 6-4 but managed to do it quite well. Venus have to play hard tennis otherwise she have to leave the tournament just like her sister.

VENUS WILLIAMS STARTED HER WINNING STREAK

Venus Williams started her winning streak in the opening match against Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 at the Italian Open. Venus was happy with the match as she had lot of aces in the first set and she dropped down in the second set.

In the deciding set she was quite comfortable and win over Safarova to clinch the first match. Venus was hitting the ball hard and it was a nice match to watch on. Venus took control of first set in just 28 minutes and only second set took over 45 minutes.

Both players had 22 winners, but Safarova had 33 unforced errors, seven more than Williams.

"We both played aggressive," Williams said. "She's just going for every shot, for the lines."

WHO WILL WIN WHEN "NADAL FIGHTS WITH WILLIAMS SISTERS"

Nadal, top seeded in men and a strong guy in general, who has excellent skill and rally with him. Will Nadal wins against Williams sisters i.e. both venus and serena on one side and Nadal on other side. It will be definitely a tough match and no doubt about it. But it seems to be of high chance for Rafeal as his serve will be excellent and he wont miss out any of his serve. He can also break either serena or Venus serve to win the match. I welcome tennis lovers to say something about the result.

UPSET VENUS

Venus williams inspite of lot of struggle in the second round against 100th seeded Sania Mirza entered the third round against 63rd seeded Sabine Lisicki. She lost her match in her straight set against Sabine Lisicki 6-4 7-6(5). Venus said" I knew that i have made lot of errors and mishit but i will come next year and win this title". Lisicki was very strong in her serve and she was the second fastest serve maker in the Australian open. She was continuously serving at 110mph. Where her serve cannot be returned by Venus Williams. Sabine told"i knew even i am struggling a bit but i can manage with my serve". She feels that it was her big win in her career.

FIGHTING KNOCK FROM SANIA

Sania Mirza, who was in 100th rank gave a fighting knock against 5th seeded Venus williams here at family circle. Sania really played very hard to win Venus Williams but Venus was comfortable in her third set. Venus took over Sania 6-1 3-6 6-2. Sania Mirza really have done lot of homework in order to compete with Venus. The match took almost 2 1/2 hours of energetic match. Sania was comfortable with this green clay court. Venus won the Family circle 5 years ago. Venus easily won the first set within 46 minutes. In the second set Venus took 3-1 lead, then Sania fired all the 5 games to win her set. The last game took almost 8 deuce points. Venus told this kind of matches pull her out. She needs to work har in each and every matches.