Serena Williams and Venus Williams, the iconic tennis players, played an incredible match in the 2002 Wimbledon Championship. Facing each other for the third time in a Grand Slam final and the tenth time overall, Serena defeated her two-time defending champion sister to win her first Wimbledon singles title. Ranked second in the tournament, Serena defeated Venus 7-6(4), 6-3, to claim her third Grand Slam singles title. Prior to their meeting at Wimbledon 2002, the Williams sisters had faced each other in the US Open 2001 and French Open 2002 finals, with each sister sharing the spoils. Serena’s victory at Wimbledon 2002 was even more impressive as she didn’t drop a set on her way to the championship in England. In a post-match press conference, Serena was asked if Venus, as a two-time defending champion, gave her extra motivation to win. The 23-time Grand Slam champion responded by saying that after winning the first set, she felt a bit complacent. “Yes, when I can win the first set, I feel like I’m a little bit overpowering, I get a little bit complacent. I feel like I have a chance to break it. I played 30-Love. And then I just hit some really sketchy shots,” she said. She also added that if she didn’t seize that opportunity, she would regret it. “Then I told myself, ‘You’re going to tell your grandkids one day how you didn’t seize the moment,'” Williams added. “So that’s what I decided I had to do, I had to keep going and seize my moment,” she further stated. “I always thought that sometimes the way Venus plays, you just can’t beat her” – When Serena Williams disagreed with her father’s view that she would ultimately become the better player Serena Williams was asked to comment on her father’s prediction that she would eventually become the better player of the two during a press conference after the Wimbledon 2002 championship match. Disagreeing with her father, the former champion said that sometimes during training, she felt like she was losing. She also added that at Venus’s best, she couldn’t be beaten. “No. I don’t know. I always thought that sometimes the way Venus plays, you just can’t beat her. Because sometimes, even in practice, I’m really fighting just to get the ball back. And I don’t even think that I played a pretty good match of his because of the way he faced me,” Serena said. Serena Williams went on to say that the match could have gone either way, and then Venus would have been the champion. Mentioning this, she said that the two of them are really close. “But I don’t know. I won’t say that I don’t feel like myself – but I really thought, if I missed one shot in that match, everything could really change, and he would sit on the bench. Here with the title of champion. I feel like we’re really close – okay, I lost my mind,” she added. Venus Williams and her father Richard recall the match that the 7-time Grand Slam winner “should have won”.


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