About two weeks ago I have written an article on women’s tennis Wimbledon history and records, and among the players mentioned was Venus Williams who was the lowest seeded Wimbledon champion, winning the title in 2005 when she was seeded 14th.

Two days ago, the American beat Marion Bartoli in the final to win her fourth trophy at the grass-court grand slam, but this time she was seeded even lower, that is 23rd.

Apparently, she was not in the race for the title on paper, but seedings and rankings do not take into consideration character and determination, something that Venus and her sister Serena have in abundance.

Zimbabwe's Cara Black and South African Liezel Huber defeated Katarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama 3-6 6-3 6-2 to take the trophy at Wimbledon 2007. The second seeded winners were too strong for a relatively new partnership of their fourth-seeded opponents.

Black and Huber are also 2005 Wimbledon champions, as well as this year’s Australian Open champions.

As for Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik and Japan's Ai Sugiyama, this was the second consecutive grand slam final they lost – at last month’s French Open they were defeated by Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo. (via BBC)

Jelena Jankovic and Jamie Murray have proved to be a successful partnership, reaching Wimbledon mixed doubles final defeating Daniel Nestor and Elena Likhovtseva 6-4 4-6 6-4.

Murray wanted Jankovic to be his partner, and she has accepted it although she doesn’t consider herself a good doubles player. (Read more about the beginning of their partnership at Jelena Jankovic — top spot on Jamie Murray's list)

Maybe Jelena doesn’t play doubles so well, but it seems to me that they enjoy each other’s company and that that’s where the good results come from. I’ve read an amusing interview of Jelena and Jamie (after their victory over Julian Knowle and Tiantian Sun on July 6) and they seem to have a lot of fun together; they are relaxed and positive.

Here are some parts of the interview which I find most interesting: Read more »

Here’s a list of Wimbledon women's singles champions since 1922:

2007 Venus Williams (U.S.) beat Marion Bartoli (France) 6-4 6-1
2006 Amelie Mauresmo (France) beat Justine Henin (Belgium) 2-6
6-3 6-4
2005 Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport (U.S.) 4-6 7-6(4)
9-7
2004 Maria Sharapova (Russia) beat Serena Williams (U.S.) 6-1
6-4
2003 Serena Williams beat Venus Williams 4-6 6-4 6-2
2002 Serena Williams beat Venus Williams 7-6(4) 6-3
2001 Venus Williams beat Henin 6-1 3-6 6-0
2000 Venus Williams beat Davenport 6-3 7-6(3) Read more »

Seed No.23 Venus Williams of the USA defeated seed No. 18 Marion Bartoli of France 6-4 6-1 in the final on Saturday. It was a decisive win for Venus, who should be congratulated on her amazing comeback. With this victory the 27-year-old American became the fourth four-time winner of Wimbledon in the open era, joining Billie-Jean King, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf.

Being ranked only 31st in the world Venus Williams defeated 2004 Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova on Wednesday, 2004 U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova on Thursday and French Open runner-up Ana Ivanovic on Friday. Read more »