Wimbledon is steeped in traditions. People eat strawberries and cream and drink Pimms spritzers during matches. Players wear white tennis outfits and watch the Number one and two seeded Williams sisters beat down everybody on their way to the Wimbledon Ladies' singles and Ladies' doubles titles.Out of all the Grand Slam tournaments, it's the one my favorite tennis playing sisters have thoroughly dominated. Serena is the defending champion, she and Big Sis have played each other in the singles championship match two straight years and are the defending Wimbledon doubles champs.
Their domination in the last decade was so thorough the All England Lawn Tennis And Croquet Club should consider renaming the Ladies' Singles championship trophy the Venus and Serena Williams Rosewater Dish.The only years during the 2k's that someone other than a Williams has won the Ladies' singles at Wimbledon is 2004 and 2006. Maria Sharapova's straight set finals win ended Serena's bid for a threepeat. In 2006 Serena was injured and didn't play in the tournament and Venus was eliminated in the third round by Jelena Jankovic.
They come into 'Williams'-don not only shooting for a Ladies' singles championship match threepeat, they are the number one world ranked doubles team and halfway to completing a doubles Grand Slam. In singles Serena also holds the world Number One ranking while Big Sis is the World Number Two. The Williams sisters not surprisingly are seeded Numbers one and two in Ladies' singles, and number one in Ladies' doubles.
And bad news for the rest of the world, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is the venue for the 2012 Olympic tennis competition.London OOC, y'all may want to consider mailing the Olympic singles and doubles tennis gold medals to the Williams sisters now after you create them.
Looking forward to the start of 'Williams'-don. The draw for both the Ladies' Singles and Ladies' doubles will take place on June 18, and I'll have a better idea about who is impeding their progress to a third straight finals appearance on that date.
Strawberries and cream anyone?
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