Who was the 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles defending champion who played alongside Venus Williams and who some commentators, players and sports writers regard as the greatest female tennis player of all time?
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2010 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles Venus Williams and Serena Williams were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva.
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Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight occasions, from 2002 to 2017. She became the world No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002. On the sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf for the most consecutive weeks as world No. 1 by a female tennis player. In total, she has been world No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks her third in the Open Era among female tennis players. Some commentators, players and sports writers regard her as the greatest female tennis player of all time.
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1985 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert 4–6, 6–3, 6–2 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1985 Wimbledon Championships. It was the last time in a women's grand slam singles event, until the 2017 US Open, that all four semi-finalists were American.
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Belinda Cordwell Belinda Jane Cordwell (born 21 September 1965) is a sports commentator and a former professional tennis player from New Zealand, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she lost in the first round of the women's singles competition to Great Britain's Sara Gomer.
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Anna Chakvetadze Anna Djambuliovna Chakvetadze (Russian: Анна Джамбулиевна Чакветадзе ; Georgian: ანა ჯამბულის ასული ჩაკვეტაძე ; born 5 March 1987) is a retired Russian professional tennis player who was born to a Georgian father and a Russian mother. On 10 September 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of world no. 5. She has won eight WTA singles titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. She was also a quarterfinalist at the 2007 Australian Open and the 2007 French Open. She announced her retirement on 11 September 2013, due to a persisting back injury. She is currently a commentator on Eurosport channel.
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1971 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Evonne Goolagong defeated Margaret Court 6–4, 6–1 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships.
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Trey Lewis (tennis) Trey Lewis (born on November 27, 1959) is a female American tennis player who played professionally in the first half of the 1980s.
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Hingis–S. Williams rivalry The tennis players Serena Williams (United States) and Martina Hingis (Switzerland) met 13 times during their careers. The overall head-to-head series is 7–6, in Williams' favor. They turned pro within a year of each other, Hingis in October 1994 and Serena in September 1995.
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Clarisa Fernández Clarisa Fernández (born 28 August 1981) is a retired Argentine tennis player who is best known for her semi-final appearance at the 2002 French Open, the first Argentine since Sabatini in 1992 to reach that stage. Fernández was ranked 87th in the world at the time of her shocking result. She defeated, in order: (Q) Lubomira Bacheva, Jelena Kostanić, Kim Clijsters, (13) Elena Dementieva, Paola Suárez, before losing to second-seeded Venus Williams in straight sets.
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2007 Sony Ericsson Open – Women's Singles The women's singles competition at the 2007 Sony Ericsson Open was won by 13th-seeded and former world number one Serena Williams, who beat the second seed Justine Henin 0–6, 7–5, 6–3, to win the title.
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2009 US Open – Women's Singles Serena Williams was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Kim Clijsters.
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2010 Serena Williams tennis season Serena Williams's 2010 tennis season officially began at the 2010 Medibank International Sydney in Sydney. Williams started 2010 as the world no. 1.
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Conchita Martínez Conchita Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was the first Spanish player to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, where she beat Martina Navratilova to win the 1994 title. Martínez also was the singles runner-up at the 1998 Australian Open and the 2000 French Open. She reached a highest world ranking of No. 2 in October 1995 and finished the season in the top 10 for nine years. Martínez won 33 singles and 13 doubles titles during her 18-year career. She is currently the captain of the Spain Fed Cup team and the Spain Davis Cup team.
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Iveta Benešová Iveta Benešová (] ) (formerly Melzer, Czech: Melzerová ; born 1 February 1983) is a Czech former professional tennis player. She began playing tennis at age of 7 and turned professional in 1998 in Prague. She has won two WTA Tour events and one Grand Slam in mixed doubles partnering with Jürgen Melzer at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. On 14 September 2012 she married Jürgen Melzer and adopted his family name. She announced her retirement from professional tennis via her Facebook page 13/08/2014. In 2015, she divorced Melzer and reverted to using her maiden name.
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1973 French Open – Women's Singles Reigning champion Billie-Jean King did not defend her title. Margaret Court defeated Chris Evert 6–7, 7–6, 6–4 (in her first appearance at the French Open) in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1973 French Open.
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Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic (Serbian: Новак Ђоковић , "Novak Đoković", ] ; born 22 May 1987) is a Serbian professional tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
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2003 WTA Tour Championships The 2003 WTA Tour Championships, also known by its sponsored name Bank of America WTA Tour Championships Presented by Porsche, was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, United States. It was the 33rd edition of the year-end singles championships, the 28th edition of the year-end doubles championships, and was part of the 2003 WTA Tour. The tournament was held between November 4 and November 10, 2003. First-seeded Kim Clijsters won the singles event and earned $1,000,030 first-prize money as well as 485 ranking points. With her victory Clijsters became the first female tennis player to earn $US4 million in a season. For the first time since 1978 a round robin system was used, after the men's Tennis Masters Cup. Two groups of four players were formed and each contender had to play three matches. Also, for singles, instead of the top sixteen players qualifying, only top eight qualified for the WTA Tour Championships. For doubles, the top four pairs (previously top eight) pairs qualified for the WTA Tour Championships, but still continued with the single elimination format.
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Flavia Pennetta Flavia Pennetta (] ; born 25 February 1982) is a retired Italian professional tennis player and Grand Slam-champion in both singles and doubles. She became Italy's first top-10 female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles on 28 February 2011. She became a Grand Slam singles champion, winning the 2015 US Open by defeating her childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian Grand Slam final .
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Kerry Melville Kerry Melville Reid, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , ("née" Melville; born 7 August 1947) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. During her 17-year career, Reid won one Grand Slam singles title and 26 other singles titles and was the runner-up in 40 singles tournaments. Reid was included in the year-end world top ten rankings for 12 consecutive years (1968–1979) . She won at least one tournament annually from 1966 through 1979, except for 1975. Her career-high ranking was World No. 5 in 1971, behind Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Evonne Goolagong, and Rosie Casals.
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Roger Rasheed Roger Rasheed (born 10 March 1969) is a former Australian rules football player, tennis player, tennis coach, and tennis commentator. Rasheed is best known as Grand Slam coach of Australian former World No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt, former French No. 1 Gaël Monfils, former World No. 5 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the Top 10 ATP Tour player Grigor Dimitrov and through ProTennisCoach.com. In addition, Rasheed is a media personality on Channel Seven and is the founder of the Roger Rasheed Sports Foundation.
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2010 Billie Jean King Cup The 2010 Billie Jean King Cup was the 2nd edition of this tennis exhibition tournament. Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, 2009 French Open Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, and 2009 US Open Champion Kim Clijsters participated. 2009 Australian Open and Wimbledon Champion Serena Williams had to withdraw from the event due to a leg injury. She was replaced by 2008 French Open Champion Ana Ivanovic. In the first semifinal, Clijsters defeated Ivanovic in a tiebreaker (7–2), despite Ivanovic having match point at 5–4 up. Williams defeated Kuznetsova in the second semifinal, 6–4. Williams defeated Clijsters in the championship match by a score of 6–4 3–6 7–5.
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2010 Open GDF Suez – Doubles Following are the results of the 2010 Open GDF Suez – Doubles. The 2010 Open GDF Suez was a women's professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the Open GDF Suez (formerly known as the "Open Gaz de France") and was a Premier tournament on the 2010 WTA Tour. It took place at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France from February 8 through February 14, 2010.