Seventh seed Venus Williams didn’t need to work much to get past Rossana De Los Rios of Paraguay and move into the third round of the US Open, the tournament she won in 2000 and 2001.

The five-time Wimbledon champion defeated her 113-ranked opponent in 59 minutes. Williams won 6-0 6-3 despite making 17 unforced errors and wasting four match points on her serve at 5-3 up before finally beating De Los Rios on the fifth.

Venus Williams, who has a song dedicated to her, will next play seed No.27 Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)

Venus Williams got a song dedicated to her. Cool! Wyclef Jean recorded a track entitled Venus (I’m Ready) as a tribute to Williams' doubles gold medal at Beijing Olympics. The track will serve as theme music for Venus throughout her appearance at the US Open. (via Black Tennis Pro's)

The Williams sisters of the United States defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain 6-2 6-0 to take the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Venus's and Serena's doubles record at the Olympics is 10-0. Eight years ago they won the gold in Sydney but they didn’t play in Athens four years later because Serena was hurt.

The bronze was won by Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China who beat Ukraine's Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko 6-2 6-2. (photo via Yahoo)

The Williams sisters weren't so successful in singles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but in doubles they beat Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine 6-4 4-6 6-1 to reach the final.

The final in Beijing will be Serena's and Venus's second Olympic doubles final, as they together claimed gold medal in Sydney eight years ago.

In the Sunday's match the Williams sisters will play either Chinese pair Zheng Zie and Yan Zi or French Open champions Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)

Shortly after her sister Serena lost to Elena Dementieva, seventh seed Venus Williams was beaten by home favorite Li Na 7-5 7-5 in the quarterfinals of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

"Venus was the best player in the world, she has just won Wimbledon," said Li, the first Chinese player to enter the top 20 in the world rankings. "She has big serves that I can't receive but I told myself to calm down and play my best."

"Wow! You can't see this kind of crowd anywhere else. It helped me and pushed me a lot. This is a present I give to the Beijing Olympic Games but I have no time to celebrate. I have more matches to go."

In the semifinals world No.42 Li Na will face the winner of the match between Jelena Jankovic and Dinara Safina. The other semifinal is set and includes Russians Elena Dementieva and Vera Zvonareva. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)