Venus Williams

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Venus Williams

Country	U.S.
Residence	Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, U.S.
Date of birth	June 17, 1980
Place of birth	Lynwood, California, U.S.
Height	185 cm (6 feet 1 inch)
Weight	72.5 kg (160 lb.)
Turned Pro	1994
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$16,339,674
Singles
Career record:	432-101
Career titles:	34
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (February 25, 2002)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	F (2003)
French Open	F (2002)
Wimbledon	W (2000, 2001, 2005)
U.S. Open	W (2000, 2001)
Doubles
Career record:	89-16
Career titles:	10
Highest ranking:	No. 5 (October 11, 1999)
Infobox last updated on: April 5, 2007.

Olympic medal record
Women's Tennis
Gold	2000 Sydney	Singles
Gold	2000 Sydney	Doubles

Venus Ebone Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980 in Lynwood, California, United States) is a former World No. 1 ranked female tennis player who has won 13 Grand Slam titles, including 5 singles, 6 women's doubles, and 2 mixed doubles titles. She is the daughter of Richard Williams and Oracene Price and the older sister of fellow former World No. 1 tennis player Serena Williams.

Contents 1 Early career 2 2003 3 2004 4 2005 5 2006 6 2007 7 Gender equality 8 Off court career 9 Grand Slam singles finals 9.1 Wins (5) 9.2 Runner-ups (6) 10 Titles (46) 10.1 Singles (34) 10.2 Doubles (10) 10.3 Mixed doubles (2) 11 Singles runner-ups (21) 12 Singles performance timeline 13 See also 14 External links

[edit] Early career

Williams turned professional on October 31, 1994. In the second round of her first professional tournament in Oakland, Williams was up a set and a service break against top seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario before losing the match. That was the only tournament Williams played in 1994. She remained a part time player on the tour during the next two years, playing only three tournaments in 1995 and five tournaments in 1996.

Williams began to play regularly on the tour in 1997. The highlight of her year was playing the U.S. Open for the first time, where she lost in the final to Martina Hingis 6-0, 6-4 after defeating Irina Spirlea in a three-set semifinal.

In 1998, Williams teamed with Justin Gimelstob to win the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open and the French Open. Her sister Serena Williams won the other two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles of the year, completing a "Williams Family Mixed Doubles Grand Slam." In singles, Venus won the Grand Slam Cup and the tournaments in Miami and Oklahoma City. She also reached at least the quarterfinals at all four Grand Slam tournaments. She ended the year ranked fifth in the world.

In 1999, Williams won the tournament in Miami, defeating Jana Novotna, Steffi Graf, and her sister Serena in successive matches. Venus also won the tournaments in Hamburg, Rome, New Haven, and Zurich. Venus and Serena teamed to win the doubles titles at the French Open and the U.S. Open, becoming the first sister team to win a Grand Slam doubles title in the 20th century.

In 2000, Williams won the singles title at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open and two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The Williams sisters also won the Wimbledon doubles title for the first time.

Williams successfully defended her Wimbledon and U.S. Open singles titles in 2001. At the U.S. Open, Williams won the tournament without dropping a set, defeating sister Serena in the final 6-2, 6-4. The Williams sisters won the Australian Open doubles title for the first time, completing a career Grand Slam in doubles for the pair. Venus won a total of six singles titles during the year.

Williams opened 2002 by defeating Justine Henin to win the Gold Coast tournament. She then reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, won Paris and Antwerp, and reached the semifinals of Dubai and Miami. Williams won seven singles titles during the year, a career best. In February 2002, Williams became the top ranked player in the world, the first African American player to garner that spot since the computer rankings began in 1975. The Willliams sisters won the Wimbledon doubles title for the second time in 2002.

Beginning with the 2002 French Open and extending through Wimbledon in 2003, Venus reached the final in five Grand Slam singles tournaments, losing all of them to her sister Serena.

[edit] 2003

Williams started the year by losing to her sister Serena in three sets in the 2003 Australian Open final.

Williams then won the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium for the second consecutive year, defeating Daniela Hantuchova and Kim Clijsters in consecutive matches.

During a semifinal match against Clijsters at Wimbledon, Williams suffered a severe abdominal injury that required medical attention during the match. Williams lost the first set and was behind early in the second set before rain delayed the match. Once play resumed, Williams won the match 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, advancing to her fourth consecutive Wimbledon final. Venus lost the final to her sister Serena 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Venus's older sister, Yetunde Price, was murdered in the Compton, California area on the morning of September 14, 2003. The era of domination by the Williams sisters began to close out after the murder. Following Wimbledon, both Venus and Serena suffered injuries that kept them out of competition for the last half of the year.

[edit] 2004

Williams came back to the tour somewhat rusty and experienced inconsistent results. As the third seeded player because of a protected ranking, she reached the third round of the Australian Open, where she lost to Lisa Raymond. After quarterfinal losses in Tokyo, Dubai, and Miami, Williams won the Tier I Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, defeating Conchita Martinez in the final. At the Tier II tournament in Warsaw, Williams defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final. The following week, Williams reached the final of the Tier I tournament in Berlin but was forced to retire from her match against Amelie Mauresmo. Going into the French Open, Williams had the best clay court record among the women and was among the favorites to win the title; however, she lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Anastasia Myskina 6-3, 6-4.

At Wimbledon, Williams lost a controversial second round match to Croatian Karolina Sprem. The umpire of the match, Ted Watts, awarded Sprem an unearned point in the second set tiebreak. Upon the conclusion of the match, he was quickly relieved of his duties.

Williams was the third seed at the hardcourt tournament in Stanford, where she lost the final to top seeded Lindsay Davenport in a third set tiebreak. At the tournament in Los Angeles the following week, Williams lost again to Davenport, this time in the semifinals. Williams was leading 5-1 in the first set when she suffered an injury and lost the last six games of the set. She then retired from the match.

In the fourth round of the U.S. Open, Williams lost to Davenport for the third consecutive time. Williams ended her year by losing in the quarterfinals of three consecutive tournaments in Moscow, Zurich, and Philadelphia.

[edit] 2005

Williams started the year by losing in the fourth round of the Australian Open to Alicia Molik. She then reached the final at the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, where she was attempting to win the tournament for the third time in four years. She defeated Kim Clijsters in the quarterfinals, Anastasia Myskina in the semifinals, and was up a set and a break in the final against Amelie Mauresmo before losing the match. Williams then lost in the first round in Dubai.

At the NASDAQ-100 Open in Miami, Venus defeated her sister Serena in the quarterfinals before losing to Maria Sharapova. This was the first time since the 2001 U.S. Open that Venus had defeated Serena.

Williams then reached the quarterfinals at Amelia Island, where she lost to top seeded Lindsay Davenport. In her next tournament in Charleston, Williams lost in the third round. She then won a Tier III title in Istanbul, defeating second seeded Nicole Vaidisova in the final.

At the French Open, Williams lost in the third round to 15-year old Bulgarian Sesil Karatantcheva, who subsequently failed a doping test and was suspended from the tour for two years.

At Wimbledon, Williams defeated defending champion Sharapova in a semifinal 7-6(2), 6-1, breaking Sharapova's serve four times. (Sharapova had lost only one service game to that point.) This marked the sixth consecutive year that at least one of the Williams sisters had reached the final, and it was Venus's fifth appearance in the Wimbledon final in the past 6 years. In the longest Wimbledon final in history, Williams was down match point at 6-4, 6-7(4), 5-4 (40-30) before coming back to defeat top seeded Davenport. This was Williams's third Wimbledon singles title, and this was the first time in 70 years that a player had won after being down match point during the women's final. In addition, Williams, as the 14th seed, was the lowest seed to win the women's singles title in Wimbledon history.

Playing for the fifth consecutive week, including Fed Cup, Williams reached the final of the Stanford tournament after defeating Patty Schnyder in a semifinal 2-6, 7-6, 6-2. Visibly exhausted, Williams lost the final to Clijsters.

At the 2005 U.S. Open, Williams reached the quarterfinals. In the fourth round, Venus defeated her sister Serena for the second consecutive time. In the quarterfinals, Williams lost to Clijsters 4-6, 7-6, 6-1, who went on to win the tournament.

In 2005, TENNIS Magazine put her in 25th place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era.

[edit] 2006

Williams lost surprisingly in the first round of the Australian Open to Tszvetana Pironkova 2-6, 6-0, 9-7. It was Williams' earliest loss at that tournament.

Williams was out of action from January 16 until April 30 because of injuries. After defeating Martina Hingis in the second round, she reached the quarterfinals at the J&S Cup in Warsaw, losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova. She then lost to Hingis in a semifinal of the Italian Open, after defeating Jelena Janković and Patty Schnyder in earlier rounds. Williams ended her clay court season with a French Open quarterfinal loss to Nicole Vaidisova 6-7, 6-1, 6-3.

Williams competed at Wimbledon as one of the favorites to win the title. She survived a scare against fellow American Lisa Raymond in the second round when Williams was two points from defeat. Williams then lost in the third round to 26th seeded Janković 7-6(8), 4-6, 6-4. After the loss, Venus was quoted as saying that she was having pain in her left wrist, but that it was not the reason why she lost.

Williams did not play in the U.S. Open series or the U.S. Open itself due to a recurring wrist injury. During her first tournament in almost three months, she reinjured her wrist in Luxembourg and lost in the second round after defeating rising star Ana Ivanović in the first round.

[edit] 2007

Williams started the year by withdrawing from the 2007 Australian Open because of a recurring wrist injury. This was the second consecutive Grand Slam event that Williams has missed due to injury.

At the WTA Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Tennessee, Williams won the title, defeating top-seeded Shahar Peer of Israel in the final 6-1, 6-1. This was her first tournament since October 2006 and her 34th career singles title.

Williams's next tournament was the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, where she lost in the third round to top seeded Maria Sharapova 2-6, 6-2, 7-5. However, her ranking jumped from number 39 to number 32.

[edit] Gender equality

In March 2007, the French Open announced that it will provide an equal amount of prize money for both men and women in all rounds.[1] The French Open was the last of the Grand Slam tournaments to make this change. As reported by the Associated Press, French Tennis Federation president Christian Bimes said he had been "particularly sensitive" to remarks Williams had made about the quality of play of women's tennis.[2] When the WTA launched a partnership in November with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to advance opportunities for women, Williams volunteered to serve as its first global promoter of gender equity.[3]

[edit] Off court career

Venus is a businesswoman and CEO of her interior design firm "V Starr Interiors" located in Jupiter, Florida. Williams' company garnered prominence by designing the set of the "Tavis Smiley Show" on PBS, designed the Olympic athletes apartments as a part of the US bid package for New York to host the 2012 games, and designed for residences and businesses in the Palm Beach, Florida area.

[edit] Grand Slam singles finals

[edit] Wins (5)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
2000	Wimbledon	Lindsay Davenport	6-3, 7-6
2000	U.S. Open	Lindsay Davenport	6-4, 7-5
2001	Wimbledon (2)	Justine Henin	6-1, 3-6, 6-0
2001	U.S. Open (2)	Serena Williams	6-2, 6-4
2005	Wimbledon (3)	Lindsay Davenport	4-6, 7-6(4), 9-7

[edit] Runner-ups (6)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1997	U.S. Open	Martina Hingis	6-0, 6-4
2002	French Open	Serena Williams	7-5, 6-3
2002	Wimbledon	Serena Williams	7-6, 6-3
2002	U.S. Open	Serena Williams	6-4, 6-3
2003	Australian Open	Serena Williams	7-6, 3-6, 6-4
2003	Wimbledon	Serena Williams	4-6, 6-4, 6-2

[edit] Titles (46)

[edit] Singles (34)

Legend Grand Slam (5) WTA Championships (0) Olympic Gold (1) Tier I Event (6) WTA Tour (22)

Titles by Surface Hard (21) Clay (7) Grass (3) Carpet (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1.	February 23, 1998	Oklahoma City, U.S.	Hard	Joannette Kruger	6-3, 6-2
2.	March 16, 1998	Sony Ericsson Open, Key Biscayne, USA	Hard	Anna Kournikova	2-6, 6-4, 6-1
3.	September 28, 1998	Grand Slam Cup, Munich, Germany	Hard	Patty Schnyder	6-2, 3-6, 6-2
4.	February 22, 1999	Oklahoma City, USA	Hard	Amanda Coetzer	6-4, 6-0
5.	March 15, 1999	Key Biscayne, USA	Hard	Serena Williams	6-1, 4-6, 6-4
6.	April 26, 1999	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Mary Pierce	6-0, 6-3
7.	May 3, 1999	Italian Open, Rome, Italy	Clay	Mary Pierce	6-4, 6-2
8.	August 23, 1999	Pilot Pen Tennis, New Haven, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	6-2, 7-5
9.	October 11, 1999	Zurich Open, Zurich, Switzerland	Hard	Martina Hingis	6-3 6-4
10.	June 26, 2000	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Lindsay Davenport	6-3, 7-6(3)
11.	July 24, 2000	Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	6-1, 6-4
12.	July 31, 2000	Acura Classic, San Diego, USA	Hard	Monica Seles	6-0, 6-7(3), 6-3
13.	August 21, 2000	New Haven, USA	Hard	Monica Seles	6-2, 6-4
14.	August 28, 2000	U.S. Open, New York, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	6-4, 7-5
15.	September 18, 2000	The Olympics, Sydney, Australia	Hard	Elena Dementieva	6-2, 6-4
16.	March 19, 2001	Key Biscayne, USA	Hard	Jennifer Capriati	4-6, 6-1, 7-6(4)
17.	April 30, 2001	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Meghann Shaughnessy	6-3, 6-0
18.	June 25, 2001	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Justine Henin	6-1, 3-6, 6-0
19.	July 30, 2001	San Diego, USA	Hard	Monica Seles	6-2, 6-3
20.	August 20, 2001	New Haven, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	7-6(6), 6-4
21.	August 27, 2001	U.S. Open, New York, USA	Hard	Serena Williams	6-2, 6-4
22.	December 31, 2001	Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts, Gold Coast, Australia	Hard	Justine Henin	7-5, 6-2
23.	February 4, 2002	Open Gaz de France, Paris, France	Carpet	Jelena Dokic	walkover
24.	February 11, 2002	Proximus Diamond Games, Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Justine Henin	6-3, 5-7, 6-3
25.	April 8, 2002	Bausch & Lomb Championships, Amelia Island, USA	Clay	Justine Henin	2-6, 7-5, 7-6(5)
26.	July 22, 2002	Stanford, USA	Hard	Kim Clijsters	6-3, 6-3
27.	July 29, 2002	San Diego, USA	Hard	Jelena Dokic	6-2, 6-2
28.	August 19, 2002	New Haven, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	7-5, 6-0
29.	February 10, 2003	Antwerp, Belgium	Carpet	Kim Clijsters	6-2, 6-4
30.	April 12, 2004	Family Circle Cup, Charleston, USA	Clay	Conchita Martinez	2-6, 6-2, 6-1
31.	April 26, 2004	J&S Cup, Warsaw, Poland	Clay	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6-1, 6-4
32.	May 15, 2005	Istanbul Cup, Istanbul, Turkey	Clay	Nicole Vaidišová	6-3, 6-2
33.	June 21, 2005	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Lindsay Davenport	4-6, 7-6(4), 9-7
34.	February 24, 2007	The Cellular South Cup, Memphis, U.S.	Hard	Shahar Peer	6-1, 6-1

[edit] Doubles (10)

Legend Grand Slam (6) WTA Championships (0) Olympic Gold (1) Tier I Event (1) WTA Tour (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
1.	February 23, 1998	Oklahoma City, U.S.	Serena Williams	Catalina Cristea and Kristine Kunce	7-5, 6-2
2.	October 12, 1998	Zurich Open, Switzerland	Serena Williams	Mariaan De Swardt and Elena Tatarkova	5-7, 6-1, 6-3
3.	February 15, 1999	Hamburg, Germany	Serena Williams	Alexandra Fusai and Nathalie Tauziat	5-7, 6-2, 6-2
4.	May 24, 1999	French Open, Paris	Serena Williams	Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova	6-3, 6-7(2), 8-6
5.	August 30, 1999	U.S. Open, New York City	Serena Williams	Chanda Rubin and Sandrine Testud	4-6, 6-1, 6-4
6.	June 26, 2000	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Serena Williams	Julie Halard and Ai Sugiyama	6-3, 6-2
7.	September 18, 2000	Summer Olympic Games, Sydney, Australia	Serena Williams	Kristie Boogert and Miriam Oremans	6-1, 6-1
8.	January 15, 2001	Australian Open, Melbourne	Serena Williams	Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu	6-2, 4-6, 6-4
9.	June 24, 2001	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Serena Williams	Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez	6-2, 7-5
10.	January 13, 2003	Australian Open, Melbourne	Serena Williams	Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez	4-6, 6-4, 6-3

[edit] Mixed doubles (2)

Mixed Doubles partner, fellow American Justin Gimelstob.

• 1998: Australian Open
• 1998: French Open (Defeated sister Serena & partner Luis Lobo of Argentina in Final)

[edit] Singles runner-ups (21)

Grand slam events in boldface.

1997: U.S. Open (lost to M. Hingis) 1998: Sydney (lost to A. Sanchez-Vicario) 1998: Rome (lost to M. Hingis) 1998: Stanford (lost to L. Davenport) 1998: Zurich (lost to M. Hingis) 1999: Hannover (lost to Jana Novotna) 1999: Stanford (lost to L. Davenport) 1999: San Diego (lost to M. Hingis) 1999: Munich (lost to S. Williams) 2000: Linz (lost to L. Davenport) 2002: Hamburg (lost to K. Clijsters)

2002: French Open (lost to S. Williams) 2002: Wimbledon (lost to S. Williams) 2002: U.S. Open (lost to S. Williams) 2003: Australian Open (lost to S. Williams) 2003: Warsaw (lost to A. Mauresmo) 2003: Wimbledon (lost to S. Williams) 2004: Berlin (lost to A. Mauresmo) 2004: Stanford (lost to L. Davenport) 2005: Antwerp (lost to A. Mauresmo) 2005: Stanford (lost to K. Clijsters)

[edit] Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, which ended on April 1, 2007.

Tournament	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Career
Australian Open	A	A	A	A	QF	QF	A	SF	QF	F	3R	4R	1R	A	0 / 8
French Open	A	A	A	2R	QF	4R	QF	1R	F	4R	QF	3R	QF		0 / 10
Wimbledon	A	A	A	1R	QF	QF	W	W	F	F	2R	W	3R		3 / 10
US Open	A	A	A	F	SF	SF	W	W	F	A	4R	QF	A		2 / 8
Grand Slam Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	0-0	7-3	17-4	16-4	18-1	19-2	22-4	15-3	10-4	16-3	6-3	0-0	146-31
Grand Slam SR	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 4	2 / 3	2 / 4	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 4	1 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 0	5 / 36
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A	A	SF	A	A	SF	A	A	A	A		0 / 2
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	A	A	A	0 / 1
Indian Wells	A	A	1R	QF	SF	A	A	SF	A	A	A	A	A	A	0 / 4
Key Biscayne	A	A	A	3R	W	W	A	W	SF	4R	QF	SF	A	3R	3 / 9
Charleston	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	W	3R	A		1 / 2
Berlin	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	A	A	F	A	A		0 / 2
Rome	A	A	A	A	F	W	3R	A	A	A	A	A	SF		1 / 4
San Diego1	A	A	1R	2R	QF	F	W	W	W	A	A	A	A		3 / 7
Montreal/Toronto	A	1R	A	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A		0 / 2
Moscow	A	A	A	QF	SF	A	A	A	2R	A	QF	A	A		0 / 4
Zurich	A	A	A	QF	F	W	A	A	A	A	QF	A	A		1 / 4
Tournaments played	1	3	5	14	16	18	10	12	16	6	16	12	6	2	137
Finals reached	0	0	0	1	6	10	7	6	11	4	4	4	0	1	54
Tournaments Won	0	0	0	0	3	6	6	6	7	1	2	2	0	1	34
Hardcourt Win-Loss	0-0	0-2	7-3	18-7	35-7	35-6	25-0	32-2	33-4	8-2	21-9	15-5	1-2	7-1	237-50
Clay Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	0-1	4-2	9-2	12-2	6-3	5-2	14-2	6-2	17-1	9-3	10-3	0-0	92-23
Grass Win-Loss	0-0	0-0	0-0	4-2	4-2	4-1	7-0	7-0	6-1	6-1	1-1	7-0	2-1	0-0	48-9
Carpet Win-Loss	1-1	2-1	0-1	6-3	5-2	7-3	3-1	2-1	9-2	4-0	3-1	3-1	0-0	0-0	45-17
Overall Win-Loss	1-1	2-3	7-5	32-14	53-13	58-12	41-4	46-5	62-9	24-5	42-12	34-9	13-6	7-1	422-992
Year End Ranking	-	204	204	22	5	3	3	3	2	11	9	10	46		N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

¹ The San Diego tournament achieved Tier I status only in 2004.

² If Fed Cup (10-2) participation is included, overall win-loss record stands at 432-101.

[edit] See also

• List of Grand Slam Women's Singles champions
• List of Grand Slam Women's Doubles champions
• List of Grand Slam Mixed Doubles champions
• List of famous tall women
• List of celebrities who have been Punk'd from Season 6 to Present

[edit] External links

• WTA Tour profile for Venus Williams
• Venus Williams Official website
• V Starr Interiors website

Preceded by Jennifer Capriati Jennifer Capriati Jennifer Capriati

World No. 1 February 25, 2002 - March 17, 2002 April 22, 2002 - May 19, 2002 June 10, 2002 - July 7, 2002

Succeeded by Jennifer Capriati Jennifer Capriati Serena Williams

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Wimbledon women's singles champions*

* Open Era | (1968) Billie Jean King | (1969) Ann Haydon-Jones | (1970) Margaret Smith Court | (1971) Evonne Goolagong | (1972-73) Billie Jean King | (1974) Chris Evert | (1975) Billie Jean King | (1976) Chris Evert | (1977) Virginia Wade | (1978-79) Martina Navrátilová | (1980) Evonne Goolagong | (1981) Chris Evert | (1982-83-84-85-86-87) Martina Navrátilová | (1988-89) Steffi Graf | (1990) Martina Navrátilová | (1991-92-93) Steffi Graf | (1994) Conchita Martínez | (1995-96) Steffi Graf | (1997) Martina Hingis | (1998) Jana Novotná | (1999) Lindsay Davenport | (2000-01) Venus Williams | (2002-03) Serena Williams | (2004) Maria Sharapova | (2005) Venus Williams | (2006) Amélie Mauresmo

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US Open women's singles champions*

* Open Era | (1968) Virginia Wade | (1969-70) Margaret Smith Court | (1971-72) Billie Jean King | (1973) Margaret Smith Court | (1974) Billie Jean King | (1975-78) Chris Evert | (1979) Tracy Austin | (1980) Chris Evert | (1981) Tracy Austin | (1982) Chris Evert | (1983-84) Martina Navrátilová | (1985) Hana Mandlíková | (1986-87) Martina Navrátilová | (1988-89) Steffi Graf | (1990) Gabriela Sabatini | (1991-92) Monica Seles | (1993) Steffi Graf | (1994) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | (1995-96) Steffi Graf | (1997) Martina Hingis | (1998) Lindsay Davenport | (1999) Serena Williams | (2000-01) Venus Williams | (2002) Serena Williams | (2003) Justine Henin | (2004) Svetlana Kuznetsova | (2005) Kim Clijsters | (2006) Maria Sharapova

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Tennis at the Summer Olympics | Olympic Champions in Women's tennis

1900: Charlotte Cooper • 1908: Dorothea Chambers, Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (indoors) • 1912: Marguerite Broquedis, Edith Hannam (indoors) • 1920: Suzanne Lenglen • 1924: Helen Wills • 1988: Steffi Graf • 1992: Jennifer Capriati • 1996: Lindsay Davenport • 2000: Venus Williams • 2004: Justine Henin

Women's Tennis Association | World No. 1's in Women's tennis
Tracy Austin • Jennifer Capriati • Kim Clijsters • Lindsay Davenport • Chris Evert • Steffi Graf • Justine Henin • Martina Hingis • Amélie Mauresmo • Martina Navrátilová • Arantxa Sánchez Vicario • Monica Seles • Maria Sharapova • Serena Williams • Venus Williams