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Williams sisters reach doubles final
Posted: Saturday July 08, 2000 06:56 PM
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- Venus and Serena Williams won their doubles semifinals Friday, beating Natasha Zvereva and Anna Kournikova 6-3, 7-6 (4). The Williams sisters will return to Centre Court Sunday for the final, one day after Venus defeated Lindsay Davenport for the singles championship. The sisters will be seeking their third Grand Slam doubles title with previous victories last year in the U.S. Open and French. Serena also won the 1998 Wimbledon and U.S. Open mixed doubles titles with Max Mirnyi. Venus won the Australian and French Open in the same year playing with Justin Gimelstob. Venus, Lindsay Davenport and Monica Seles are guaranteed a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Coach Billie Jean King can select one more player, and it likely will be Serena Williams. "We're the best doubles team America has," Venus said. "It would be a good pick." The sisters entered the Wimbledon doubles as a wild card and were seeded No. 8.
"I think we played better as a team together today," Serena said. "Usually when we first played doubles we were too much on our own. We learned to work it out together."
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