This year’s Wimbledon tournament is Venus Williams’s 20th. Here are some of her most memorable matches.
Defeated Serena Williams, 6-2, 7-6 (3)
Venus, then 20, and Serena Williams, 18, became the first sisters to play at this late stage at Wimbledon since Maud Watson beat her sister, Lilian, in the inaugural women’s final in 1884.
Richard Williams, the father of the Williams sisters, could not bear to watch the match, instead taking a walk in the village of Wimbledon with reporters shadowing him. The match ended on a double fault from Serena, and the all-Williams handshake afterward at the net bore a closer resemblance to group therapy.