Thursday, July 1, 2010

Sister Slam

US Venus Williams (R) and sister Serena Williams hold their winners trophy's after their women's doubles final match against Czech Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia in the French Open tennis championship at the Roland Garros stadium, on June 4, 2010 in Paris. The Williams sisters won 6-2, 6-3.
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Lost a bit in all the singles drama, Serena and Venus Williams captured the Roland Garros doubles title for their fourth straight Slam victory and 12th overall.

They became only the third women's doubles pair to win four major titles in a row. Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver did it in 1983-84, and Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva did it in 1992-93.

Serena called it the Williams' Slam.

All of sport may never see such accomplished siblings again.
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