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Updated on August 18th 2022, 6:54:38 pm

Top 5 Best Performances of Venus Williams

Venus Williams turned Pro in 1994 and has won 5 Wimbeldon titles and 2 US Open titles in her career. She won 14 Doubles Grand Slam titles with her sister Serena Williams so a total of 21 Grand Slam titles. A look at her best performances.

We are back again with the best performances of Venus Williams and I feel she does not get as much love as Serena Williams. Venus Williams is also an all time legend of tennis and she also has won a lot of singles Grand Slam titles and that we can make this list. She has won 7 Singles Grand Slam titles and we will talk about her best performances from these only as I want to pay respect to her singles career. Venus Williams is an inspiration to a lot of young girls who want to play tennis.


Venus Williams turned Pro in 1994 and she is going strong till now and she has achieved so much in her long career. She has won 5 Wimbeldon titles and 2 US Open titles in her career. She has also won 14 Doubles Grand Slam titles with her sister Serena Williams so a total of 21 Grand Slam titles. She has a Singles record of 815 wins and 265 losses with a win % of 75.5%. Her doubles record is 185 wins and 37 losses with a win % of 83.3%. The total prize money in her career is $42,173,992. Let’s look at the Top 5 Best Performances of Venus Williams.


2000 Wimbledon Final vs Lindsay Davenport


The first singles title in the career of Venus Williams is the 2000 Wimbledon title vs her American counterpart and Venus Williams won the match in 2 sets in dominating fashion although the second set was tough. She won the match 6-3 and 7-6 in over an hour and showed that she is also an equally capable Singles tennis player herself. This was the start of a legendary career.


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2000 US Open Final vs Lindsay Davenport


The second back to back Grand Slam finals Lindsay Davenport and this time as well the result was the same as the one in Wimbledon a few months ago. Venus Williams won the US Open as well in 2000 thus winning back to back Grand Slam titles. This was also dominant in 2 sets and Venus Williams won the match by 6-4 and 7-5 on the second set of the match. Her singles prowess was growing each day and she will only go further from here.


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2001 Wimbledon Final vs Justine Henin


Venus Williams returned to Wimbledon in 2001 as the defending champion and she again won the title in 2001 but in the final it was a tougher match than the one she had in 2000 as it was a 3 set thriller. Venus Williams won the 1st set 6-1 but then lost the second set 3-6 but she came back in the 3rd set to win it 6-0 and win her 3rd Brand Slam and her 2nd Wimbledon title.


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2001 US Open Final vs Serena Williams


This is one of those rare occasions when the sisters were paired opposite each other in a Grand Slam final and this time it was for the 2001 US Open Final and here Venus Williams got the better of her sister in 2 sets in convincing fashion and won her 4th Grand Slam title. She won the 2 sets by 6-2 and 6-4 and Serena was bested by her sister and she was happy for Venus.


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2005 Wimbledon Final vs Lindsay Davenport


The best match in this list is at the 5th spot and this is the match where Venus Williams had to did deep to win the US Open as her opponent Lindsay Davenport came all prepared to beat Venus Williams that day. It was a thriller as Venus Williams lost the 1st set by 4-6 but the way she came back in the next 2 sets showed why she is one of the all greats. Venus Williams won the second set in a tie break by 7-6 and then it went till the last where Venus Williams won 9-7 in the Third set in a match nearing 2 hours and Venus Williams won her 3rd Wimbeldon title.


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