It is unlikely that Alize Cornet will ever forget the moment she watched Serena Williams come charging towards the net - only to whip a backhand straight into the barrier.
Serena Williams has used her painful defeat at the French Open to spur her on at Wimbledon.\n\n
Serena Williams is prepared to go without another victory this year, as long as she mounts a successful title defence at next week's U.S. Open.
World number two Serena Williams brushed aside qualifier Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-2 on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Toronto Cup and set up a mouth-watering clash with Elena Dementieva.
German Sabine Lisicki sent another seismic shockwave through Wimbledon on Monday when she sent five-times champion Serena Williams packing in fourth round, while Li Na and Petra Kvitova advanced to the quarter-finals.
Victoria Azarenka suffered a stunning meltdown and blew three match points against world number one Serena Williams before losing 7-6(5), 3-6, 7-6(1) in the third round of the Madrid Open on Wednesday.
French Open champion Justine Henin enjoyed a swift 60-minute workout to overcome Russia's Vera Dushevina to enter the third round.
Wimbledon champions Roger Federer and Serena Williams were on course for further success at the All-England Club after booking their places in the Olympic singles semi-finals on Thursday.
With her post-pregnancy comeback, the tennis champ is shattering stereotypes and inspiring women everywhere.
Serena Williams, who racked up her 500th match win with the victory, said her ankle is still causing her problems, a potential issue for tougher tests ahead.
She becomes only the fifth woman to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time.
Serena Williams likes proving people wrong and intends to surprise the sceptics at next month's French Open.
Serena Williams started her 2010 season in the same devastating fashion in which she ended 2009, thrashing Spain's Marie Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-1, 6-2 in the second round of the Sydney International on Tuesday.
Tennis World No. 1 Serena Williams found herself in trouble with security officials at the PGA Tour's Honda Classic on Friday after she tried to photograph Tiger Woods.
Breeze though the outfits that caught the maximum shutterbugs at the final Grand Slam of the year.
The Pink Panther made a brief appearance, as did Catwoman, but it was the name of Serena Williams that was engraved on most of the 2002 tennis silverware.
Former World No. 1 Serena Williams gave the United States a commanding 2-0 lead over Belarus in their Fed Cup tie on Saturday after top ranked Victoria Azarenka was unable to compete for the eastern Europeans because of a sore lower back.
Serena Williams capped off yet another successful day at Wimbledon for America's premier tennis family as she followed up her singles triumph by winning the doubles title with sister Venus on Saturday.
World No 1 and top seed Serena Williams racked up the 50th title of her 18-year career when she thumped Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-4 to defend her Madrid Open crown on Sunday.
Fritz, Shelton lead American charge at US Open with first-round wins
World number one Serena Williams kept her Wimbledon title defence on track on Sunday, downing Germany's Annika Beck 6-3, 6-0 with a crushing display of power and booming serves to chalk up her 300th grand slam victory.
Serena Williams laid down an imposing marker ahead of the first grand slam of the year by powering to a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka at the Brisbane International.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion has retorted to former tennis ace John McEnroe's comments, saying she would struggle on the men's circuit.
Schnyder's reward will be a semi-final against third seed Jelena Jankovic, at the Italian Open.
Local favourite Patty Schnyder eased into the second round of the Zurich Open on Tuesday after sixth seed Serena Williams retired injured at 6-0, 3-0 down.
Serena Williams, winner of eight Grand Slam tennis titles, says she has been inspired by her fellow American, boxing great Muhammad Ali.
Serena Williams fought back from the brink of defeat to oust fourth seed Maria Sharapova 2-6, 7-5, 8-6.
The International Tennis Federation hosted the ITF World Champions Dinner in Paris on Tuesday and World No 1s Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams were honoured at the annual function.
The only former champion in the women's draw, Serena Williams, was ousted in the second round of the French Open.
The former world number one struggled to a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Spain's Maria Sanchez-Lorenzo in the second round of the Rome Masters.
A laid-back Serena Williams breezed into the Madrid Open quarter-finals on Thursday when she barely broke sweat in a 6-3, 6-1 drubbing of Maria Kirilenko.
Serena Williams battled her way into the Australian Open semi-finals with a 3-6, 6-2, 8-6 win over Israeli Shahar Peer.
Williams has not played competitively for nearly eight months after undergoing a knee operation but had hoped to make her comeback at the $600,000 event in Doha.
Serena Williams, who won the Australian and Wimbledon Grand Slam titles last year, was voted the WTA Tour 2009 Player of the Year for a second successive season, at a ceremony in Miami on Wednesday.
