Tennis: Wimbledon 2005: Heavenly ... Venus at Full Stretch to Beat Davenport Was Full of Drama.
Birmingham Post › July 04, 2005
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The name of Venus Williams adorned the famous Wimbledon rosewater dish for the third time after a dramatic and record-breaking women's singles final.
Williams completed a 4-6, 7-6, 9-7 victory over fellow-American Lindsay Davenport in the longest-ever Wimbledon women's singles final which lasted a gripping two hours and 45 minutes.See the full content of this document
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Tennis: Wimbledon 2005: Heavenly ... Venus at Full Stretch to Beat Davenport Was Full of Drama.
It enabled her to become only the third woman in Wimbledon history to win a singles final from match point down.
But while the achievement of Williams in winning her first Grand Slam for four years from the inauspicious seeding of 14 deserves the highest accolade spare a thought for Davenport.The girl who has been plagued by injury over the past five years and who toyed with a...See the full content of this document
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