Rome: Laura Robson overcame strong winds to beat Venus Williams 6-3, 6-2 at the Italian Open on Monday and set up a second-round match with top-ranked Serena Williams.
Both players struggled with the wind at the Foro Italico, with Robson hitting eight double-faults and Venus six, although Venus' errors came at more inopportune times, notably two double-faults in the final game.
Robson, who at No. 39 is ranked 15 spots below Venus, is a former Wimbledon junior champion from Britain. Serena, who won the Madrid Open on Sunday, watched the match from the stands.
Also on the red clay, Sabine Lisicki of Germany eliminated American qualifier Mallory Burdette 6-1, 6-2; and Italian wild card Nastassja Burnett defeated 2008 finalist Alize Cornet of France 6-2, 6-2....
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08:34 PM, May 13, 2013
Madrid: Former world number one Venus Williams has been forced to withdraw from the Madrid Open due to a back problem, organisers said on Sunday. The 32-year-old American, now ranked 21, was due to play her first-round match against Spanish wild card Anabel Medina Garrigues on the clay at the premier event on Sunday. She will be replaced in the draw by 56th-ranked Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland. ...
03:52 PM, May 05, 2013
Florida: Venus Williams needed eight match points in the final game to beat Johanna Larsson 6-3, 7-5 and give the U.S. an insurmountable 3-1 lead against Sweden in the Fed Cup World Group Playoff. It marked the first time that the 21st ranked Venus Williams, a former No. 1, has clinched a Fed Cup tie for the United States. Earlier Sunday, No. 1-ranked Serena Williams boosted the U.S. to a...
09:17 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Venus Williams withdrew from the Sony Open with a lower back injury shortly before her third-round match. ...
03:29 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Serena Williams is making her fourth visit to Dubai this week, and keen to claim a 48th career title. ...
10:35 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Li Na has pulled out of next week's Qatar Open due to an ankle she injured in the Australia Open final. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The 23rd-ranked Venus Williams has been hampered by back problems since the Australian Open. She missed the Open GDF Suez tournament and will skip the upcoming Fed Cup match against Italy because of the injury. ...
03:06 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Sloane Stephens will lead the US Fed Cup team that is without the Williams sisters for the World Group first-round match against Italy on Feb. 9-10. ...
10:52 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Venus, who lost in straight sets to Maria Sharapova in the third round of the Australian Open, has done so on account of a back injury. ...
11:46 AM, Jan 26, 2013
Sharapova could find herself packing her bags after she meets Venus Williams in the third round of the Australian Open. ...
10:42 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Djokovic was all but perfect in his second-round match against Ryan Harrison, beating the 20-year-old American 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. ...
05:54 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The seven-time Grand Slam champion beat her French opponent 6-3, 6-3 in the Australian Open. ...
03:21 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Venus Williams defeated Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan 6-1, 6-0. ...
08:52 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Sharapova doesn't want to get too far ahead of herself here. ...
12:03 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Venus Williams rallied to defeat Chanelle Scheepers 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, before Kevin Anderson levelled the tie for South Africa with a 7-6 (0), 7-6 (5) win over John Isner. The US clinched the tie by winning the mixed doubles 6-3, 6-2. ...
02:43 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Playing for the first time on blue hard courts at the new Perth Arena, the eight-country event begins on Saturday. ...
01:00 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Brussels: Kim Clijsters will play a ceremonial farewell match on Dec. 12 against Venus Williams. Clijsters retired from tennis after the US Open in August but announced on her website on Monday that she will face her longtime rival Wiliams in the Kim's Thank You Games at the Antwerp Sports Palace. The 29-year-old Belgian, a four-time Grand Slam winner, initially retired in 2007 only to make a return to the...
09:56 AM, Oct 30, 2012
Luxembourg: Venus Williams won her first WTA tournament in more than two years, beating Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-2, 6-3 to take the Luxembourg Open title on Sunday. Slowed by injuries and illness for two seasons, Williams showed she still had the winning touch and played steady tennis while Niculescu proved error-prone as she sought her first career title. At 32, Williams won her 44th singles title in a career...
11:35 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New York: Sixth-seeded Angelique Kerber moved on easily at the US Open to set up a second round match with Venus Williams. The German beat Britain's Anne Keothavong 6-2, 6-0 in 54 minutes on Tuesday. Keothavong, ranked 81st, had 25 unforced errors to Kerber's nine. Ranked outside the top 100 at the start of 2010, Kerber is now a career-best sixth. She reached her first Grand Slam semifinal at Flushing...
03:02 AM, Aug 29, 2012
