Defending champion Serena Williams beat Carla Suarez Navarro 6-0 6-3 to advance to the fourth round of the Australian Open. Let me remind you that the Spaniard knocked out Serena’s elder sister Venus at last year’s Australian Open, in the second round already. This year, the top-seeded Serena avenged her sister’s defeat, won the first five games of the match in just 15 minutes, then the long sixth game in 19 minutes, before routinely taking the second set.

Venus Williams took out home favorite Casey Dellacqua 6-1 7-6(4) in the third round. The sixth-seeded Williams was pushed to play a second-set tiebreak, and her opponent even fought off three match points before finally losing to the seven-time Grand Slam champion.

Serena will next meet Australian 13th seed Samantha Stosur, and Venus will play seed No.17 Francesca Schiavone of Italy. (photo via Australian Open)

I came across this funny interview with Serena’s and Venus’s mother Oracene Price, who talks about how she’s had enough of the tennis life and its repetitiveness. She really opened up to the reporter and even revealed why she wears sunglasses at tennis matches (I’m sure you can already guess the reason).

Top seed Serena Williams lost just three games to advance to the second round of the Australian Open, the tournament she won last year in both singles and doubles. The four-time Australian Open champion defeated Poland's world No.72 Urszula Radwanska 6-2 6-1 and will next play Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.

Serena’s sister Venus beat Czech Lucie Safarova 6-2 6-2 to advance to the second round. The sixth-seeded Williams will try to improve on her last year’s result, when she was upset in the second round by Carla Suarez Navarro. Venus' opponent in the next round will be Austrian Sybille Bammer.

The sisters will again team up for the doubles competition. (photo: Getty Images)

Answering the wish of our readers Marcel and Ama, we are featuring the retrospection of all the dresses Venus Williams wore during the 2009 tennis season.

The seven-time Grand Slam champion is promoting her own clothing line called EleVen.

I see that many people like Venus' designs, but I'm not a huge fan. I like just some of the dresses, and I can always picture her wearing something much better. However, I think it’s really nice that this year she was wearing exclusively dresses.

Of the designs she sported on tennis courts during 2009 I like the yellow dress from the Australian Open and the Wimbledon one (especially the back). The other ones are fine, but the US Open dress is a total miss in my opinion, especially having in mind it was made for a great tournament such as a Grand Slam.

And notice this: the white and yellow dress from Dubai and Acapulco is actually last year’s US Open dress. Oops. Talking about 2008, here you can remind yourselves of Venus' 2008 EleVen fashions.

What do you think of EleVen? Would you prefer Venus in some other brand? Which 2009 Eleven dresses do you like, and which ones you don’t?

Addition: See what other top WTA players were wearing in tournaments. (photos via: Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, Women Who Serve, smagico, angela n.)

Belgian Kim Clijsters beat American Venus Williams 6-1 7-5 on home soil at the Diamond Games exhibition match in Anwerp.

They were playing in front of 14,000 people in the stands and Clijsters said that not even the US Open final can compare with the feeling of winning in your native country before a packed Sportpaleis. (source: Reuters, photo via Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)