Serena Williams won her 11th singles Grand Slam title, and her second of the season, by beating five-time Wimbledon champion and twice defending champion Venus Williams 7-6(3) 6-2.

The first set went with serve, and was decided in a tiebreak. In the second set, second seed Serena broke third seed Venus in the sixth game to lead 4-2, and then won Venus' next service game as well to clinch the grass-court Grand Slam title on her fourth match point. Prior to this final, Venus Williams had won 34 sets in a row at Wimbledon.

Serena has become the first player in women's tennis history to save match point en route to a Grand Slam singles title three times. This time she saved a match point in the semifinal against Elena Dementieva, the longest women's semifinal at Wimbledon in the era of Open tennis, and did the same thing at the 2003 and 2005 Australian Open.

Serena has now won Wimbledon three times, in 2002, 2003 and 2009.

The Williams sisters, defending champions in doubles, are playing the Wimbledon doubles final later today. (photo courtesy of Life.com)

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Venus Williams demolished world No.1 Dinara Safina 6-1 6-0 in Wimbledon semifinals, but in press-conference the American seven-time Grand Slam champion showed great respect for her opponent, and defended both the Russian and the state of women’s tennis in general.

Here’s an extract from the interview:

Q. This isn't your fault obviously because you played really well, but it's embarrassing for women's tennis to see the No. 1 destroyed in that way, isn't it?

VENUS WILLIAMS: Why do you put it like that?

Q. You played very well.

VENUS WILLIAMS: Are you trying to be down on women's tennis?

Q. I'm trying to be down on the way that Safina is the world No. 1 representing women's tennis.

VENUS WILLIAMS: So you're trying to be down basically.

Q. Not on women's tennis, no.

VENUS WILLIAMS: Okay, because I don't deal with down at all.

Q. It's not down.

VENUS WILLIAMS: I'm just making sure you're not trying to be down, because I respect Dinara Safina immensely, and I think you should, too.

Q. I do.

VENUS WILLIAMS: Thanks.

One more think that could defend Safina is that Venus was playing on grass, her favorite surface, which is not Dinara's favorite surface. On clay, Dinara was the winner over Venus, this year in Rome, in three sets though. (photo courtesy of Life)

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The powerful Williams sisters will face each other in the Wimbledon singles final for the second year in a row, but that’s not all, Venus and Serena have reached the doubles final as well, also for the second successive year.

The fourth-seeded Williamses, defending champions in women's doubles at Wimbledon 2009, demolished top-ranked Liezel Huber and Cara Black 6-1 6-2 in just one minute over an hour. Serena and Venus faced no break points during the semifinal and made 34 winners to their opponents’ 14.

In Saturday’s final, the sisters will face third seeds Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs, who defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-7(3) 6-4 6-2. (photos courtesy of Life)

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For the second year in a row the mighty Williams sisters will face each other in the final of Wimbledon.

Serena Williams won the longest women’s semifinal at Wimbledon in the era of Open tennis and got one step away from getting another make-up holder (she stores her make-up brushes in her numerous trophies). However, that one step is a huge one. Even though two-time Wimbledon champion Serena will be playing her fifth Wimbledon final, her sister Venus has won the prestigious title as much as five times, having played the final seven times so far, and is twice defending champion this year.

Second seed Serena was one point from losing to fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia, but as always with Serena, it’s never over till it’s over, and the American won the women’s match of Wimbledon 2009 6-7(4) 7-5 8-6. Williams was down 4-5, 30-40 in the final set, before she leveled at 5-5. In the 13th game she broke Dementieva and then held on to her own serve to win in 2 hours and 49 minutes.

In the other semifinal, fourth seed Venus Williams comfortably defeated top seed and world No.1 Dinara Safina of Russia 6-1 6-0 in only 51 minutes.

Serena and Venus Williams have combined for seven of the last nine Wimbledon titles. Impressive! (photos courtesy of Life)

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Wimbledon is by far the most traditional tennis event, but some formalities have been changed in recent years and the latest one is that female players are no longer referred to as "Miss" or "Mrs" on scoreboards.

Instead of "Miss" or "Mrs" in front of players' last names, Wimbledon is now, for the first time in 132 years, using players’ first names. However, the tradition hasn’t disappeared completely, since umpires are still referring to women players as "Miss" or "Mrs".

The introduction of this change happened without fuss or fanfare.

"There is no official line on this," says a spokeswoman for Wimbledon. "It's something that we've just changed this year. It's actually gone completely unnoticed, until now." (source: BBC)

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