British World No. 3 Andy Murray cruised to a straightforward victory over Bernard Tomic at the Sony Open but the Williams sisters had contrasting fortunes in Miami on Saturday.
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Top seed Maria Sharapova dodged the showers on her way to a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Taiwan's Chan Yung-Jan to set up a third round encounter against Venus Williams at the Sony Ericsson Open on Saturday.
The American has targeted a return to the world's top 16 by the French Open.
Venus Williams' record-equalling fifth Olympic tennis medal was silver rather than gold as she and partner Rajeev Ram lost an all-American mixed doubles final to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock on Sunday .
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Top seed Caroline Wozniacki and former World No 1 Venus Williams ensured Auckland Classic organisers' dream final remained on track with the duo both recording comfortable victories in their first round matches on Tuesday.
A rare astronomical phenomenon on June 8, known as 'Transit of Venus', will turn the planet into a 'pinhead-sized black dot'.
Wimbledon champion Venus Williams will get back into serious action on Saturday when she plays the second singles rubber against Nadia Petrova, in the Fed Cup semi-final.
Serena Williams was left all alone trying to crush an unlikely uprising on Wimbledon's hallowed lawns on Tuesday as sister Venus and Kim Clijsters suffered shock defeats in the women's quarter-finals.
After the historic success of its Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going full throttle with its plans to send Indian astronauts for the first time to the Moon by 2040, ISRO Chairman S Somanath said.
Venus Williams, the world's former top-ranked tennis player, was the driver at fault in a two-car crash in Florida on June 9 that killed a passenger in the other vehicle, according to the initial police report on the incident released on Thursday.
Big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic made a strong return to competition on Friday by beating Viktor Troicki 6-3, 7-5 to reach the third round of the Miami Open.
Belgian Kim Clijsters brought a swift end to Venus Williams's 15-match winning streak with a 6-2, 6-1 win in the Sony Ericsson Open final on Saturday. The 14th seed needed only 58 minutes to defeat the third-seeded American, who played with bandaging on both legs and said afterwards she may have trained too hard during the tournament.
Venus Williams crushed Frenchwoman Alize Cornet 6-3, 6-0 in the final of the Dubai Championship on Saturday, the veteran American bagging her first singles title since 2012.
Champion Venus Williams was knocked out of the Family Circle Cup beaten 7-5, 6-4 by 17-year-old Tatiana Golovin of France.
Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams has affirmed that she has no plans to bring down the curtains on her illustrious career and is targeting a place in the American team for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The world number two said her near-misses initially left her deflated and sick of tennis, but she was now over the pain.
Venus Williams and Vera Zvonareva registered second-round victories at the Advanta Championships in Philadelphia on Thursday.
It was the former world number one's earliest loss at Wimbledon since she went out in the opening round on her debut here in 1997.
Venus Williams gained revenge for her Wimbledon final defeat by Garbine Muguruza when the American advanced to the last four of the WTA Finals with a gutsy 7-5 6-4 victory over the Spanish world number two on Thursday.
Seven-times Grand Slam winner Venus Williams has withdrawn from this month's Australian Open saying she is not ready to return to action after being sidelined because of health reasons.
Modi gave these directions during a meeting to review the preparedness of the Gaganyaan mission and the first demonstration flight of the crew escape system test vehicle scheduled for October 21.
"I generally don't play with pain, but this is a Grand Slam and I just wanted to win," said the American.\n\n
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Venus Williams bravely fought off five match points to stun third seed Patty Schnyder 2-6, 7-6, 6-2 to enter the final in Stanford
Venus Williams proved she was still a force to be reckoned with after a two-year battle with injuries and illness as she downed Romania's Monica Niculescu 6-2, 6-3 to win the Luxembourg Open title on Sunday.
The 29-year-old American romped to a 5-0 lead against Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska and completed a 6-1 6-2 victory on auto-pilot as slumbering Court One fans applauded politely in temperatures soaring into the 30s Celsius again.
Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki and the evergreen Venus Williams won their semi-finals at the Auckland Classic on Friday to set up a final showdown between two former World No 1s.
IMAGES from the matches played at the Miami Open on Thursday
Images from the third day at the US Open, the final Grand Slam tournament of the year, in New York, on Wednesday:
Venus Williams made a triumphant return to the WTA Tour on Wednesday, winning her first round match at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.
Injury-hampered Venus Williams made a first-round exit at the Dubai Open on Monday.
Venus Williams showed that, almost a year after her health scare, she has the stamina needed as she battled for two hours 23 minutes to beat Russia's Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 6-7, 6-2 at the Cincinnati Open on Tuesday.
Venus Williams beat local favourite Kim Clijsters 6-2, 6-3 to reach the semi-finals of the Antwerp Diamond Games tournament.
Confident Venus Williams has her heart set on a glittering prize at this week's Antwerp Open.
The tournament will see the Williams sisters appearing together for the first time outside the Grand Slams.
Coco Gauff became the first American to win a US Open singles title since Sloane Stephens in 2017.
Second seed Venus Williams tumbled out of the Family Circle Cup on Thursday, succumbing 6-4 7-6 to big-serving German Sabine Lisicki in the third round. The American, who had to battle the previous day before beating Indian Sania Mirza in three sets, lost the match in 87 minutes after the 16th-seeded German took the tiebreak 7-5.
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