Venus and Serena Williams
Venus is among the best tennis players in the game, with Serena universally considered the Greatest of All Time in women’s tennis. With her win at Wimbledon this year, the younger Williams sister equalled Steffi Graf’s all-time record of 22 Grand Slam titles, and in current form could well break that record at the US Open.
34-year-old Serena and older sister Venus have had success both individually and together, winning singles and doubles titles.
The sisters have one singles gold medal each: Venus won top honours at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, beating Russia’s Elena Dementieva to the title, while Serena is the defending Olympic champion, also beating a Russian opponent – Maria Sharapova – to gold.
The pair have won every doubles final they have played together – taking gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and at the 2012 London Olympics, making them the defending women’s doubles champions.
Unfortunately, a straight sets loss to Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic left the Williams sisters unable to defend their title.
Venus’ singles jaunt also ended, with a loss to Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens in the first round.
Defending champion Serena is going strong in the tournament, beating France’s Alize Cornet in straight sets to progress to the third round of the tournament. Given she is fresh off breaking a record – and winning a Grand Slam, after having made the final of every Grand Slam so far this year, Williams looks to be the favourite to win gold in 2016.
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