serena and venus have played each other 29 times.
serena and venus have played each other 29 times.
how many times has serena and venus played each other?
29
the maroon group features more accomplished and veteran players with all of them reaching a grand slam final and 3 of them, aside from dementieva, have won a grand slam at least twice. in their respective records reigning australian open and wimbledon champion serena williams is 22-16, french open champion svetlana kuznetsova is 12-12, elena dementieva is 10-21 and venus williams is 22-17. as their head-to-heads are broken down the leader of the maroon group, serena, is the only one that has a winning record against each of her group mates. she is 5-2 against kuznetsova, this year they met twice at the australian open which eventual champion serena won and in the french open which eventual champion kuznetsova won. serena is 6-4 against dementieva and 2-2 this year with dementieva's wins coming from medibank international sydney and rogers, and serena's victories coming from the australian open and their stellar match in the 2009 wimbledon championships. serena is 11-10 against her sister venus and 2-1 in the year. venus won their first encounter of the year at the dubai tennis championships with serena winning their last two meetings in miami and wimbledon. unlike serena, dementieva is on the losing side with her head-to-heads besides being 4-6 against serena, she is also 4-6 against kuznetsova, with kuznetsova winning their only meeting this year in the porsche tennis grand prix and winning 4 of their last 5 meetings. dementieva is also down against venus 2-9 with venus getting the upper hand 2-0 this year against dementieva with wins in dubai and stanford. adding to that venus is in a 6 match winning streak against dementieva with dementieva's win dating back to 2004 in miami. on the head-to-head between kuznetsova and venus, kuznetsova leads it 4-3 with them splitting their last two meetings and with their last meeting dating back to march 2008 in miami with kuznetsova prevailing.
2009 wta tour championships
the last day saw another showdown between serena williams and defending champion venus williams for the title. serena progressed to the finals undefeated; beating, elena dementieva, svetlana kuznetsova and venus in the group stage. before defeating caroline wozniacki in the semifinals. venus progressed to the finals after having a bad start, losing close three setters to serena and dementieva, whilst defeating kuznetsova. venus received a lucky break as dementieva lost to kuznetsova, tying all 3 players with venus winning and progressing to the semifinals. venus progressed to the final when she defeated jelena janković. serena held the lifetime match record at 12-10 against venus; coming into the final. with serena winning their last 3 meetings. the first set saw serena as dominate as she lost only 4 points on serve. serena took advantage of her sister's poor service game converting two of six break points in the 3rd and 7th game to take the first set 6-2. the 2nd set featured no break point opportunities as it came down to a tie-break. in the tie-break serena got the mini-break on the first point and rallied to a 5-1 lead only to see venus cut it back to 5-4, but serena won the tie-break 7-4 and the title. this win meant that serena was the first player female to surpass the 6 million mark.
2009 wta tour championships