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In The Family
At the 2001 US Open, the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, helped shape one of the greatest nights in recent women's tennis history. They became the first sisters to play for a U.S. singles championship and did so in the first Grand Slam tournament final scheduled for a prime-time national network telecast. The match, which Venus Williams won, 6-2, 6-4, was the most-watched program on U.S. television on that September 8 night.
But the Williams' historic US Open final was, in fact, only a preview of the amazing summer to come in 2002. The Williams' also played each other for the 2002 Roland Garros and Wimbledon
titles, before meeting again in the 2002 US Open women's singles final, played for a second
straight year in prime time. Serena, however, turned the tables on older sister Venus, winning her
second US Open singles title by a 6-4, 6-3 margin. The sisters also played in the final of the 2003
Australian Open, marking the fourth consecutive Grand Slam women's singles final pitting the sisters against each other.
"When I first walked out [on Centre Court]," Serena said of the 2002 Wimbledon final, "I was just thinking I wanted to win. But I was thinking also that my dad always said that one day we'll be playing in the finals of Wimbledon, in the finals of the US Open, just the big ones. And here we were 10, 15 years later. And it's really amazing if you think about it because my dad-and my mom-it's hard to get one champion, but now he has two. And this is unbelievable really."
Serena Williams, whose 1999 US Open title made her the first Grand Slam tournament singles champion in the Williams household, defeated Venus, 7-5, 6-3, in the 2002 Roland Garros final and won, 7-6, 6-3, in the 2002 Wimbledon final.
Sisters at the Championship
1895 -- Juliette Atkinson d. Kathleen Atkinson, 6-1 6-4 (3rd R)
1897 -- Juliette Atkinson d. Kathleen Atkinson, 6-1 6-3 (2nd R)
1907 -- Edna Wildey d. Mildred Wildey, 6-2 6-1 (2nd R)
1907 -- Elizabeth Ostheimer d. Nancy Ostheimer, 6-2 6-1 (3rd R)
1916 -- Elizabeth Ostheimer d. Gertrude Ostheimer, 6-0 6-2 (2nd R)
1985 -- Anne Minter d. Elizabeth Minter, 6-3 6-4 (1st R)
1990 -- Katerina Maleeva d. Magdalena Maleeva 6-3 6-1 (1st R)
1992 -- Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere d. Magdalena Maleeva 6-2 5-3 ret (QF)
1993 -- Katerina Maleeva d. Magdalena Maleeva 6-2 6-3 (4th R)
2001 -- Venus Williams d. Serena Williams, 6-2, 6-4 (F)
2002 -- Serena Williams d. Venus Williams, 6-4, 6-3 (F).
Brothers at the Championship
1894 -- V.G. Hall d. E.L. Hall, 6-4 1-6 6-2 3-6 6-3 (1st R)
1896 -- R.D. Wrenn d. G.L. Wrenn 2-6 9-7 7-5 9-7 (3rd R)
1896 -- R.D. Wrenn d. E. Wrenn 6-4 6-4 12-10 (2nd R)
1900 -- G.L. Wrenn d. R.D. Wrenn, 6-4 6-1 6-4 (4th R)
1901 -- W.A. Larned d. E.P. Larned, def. (QF)
1902 -- R.F. Doherty d. H.L. Doherty, def. (SF)
1903 -- H.L. Doherty d. R.F. Doherty, def. (QF)
1915 -- Phillip Roberts d. Walter Roberts, 6-3 0-6 6-4 4-6 6-4 (1st R)
1935 -- M. Laird Watt d. R.M. Watt, Jr., 7-9 6-8 8-6 8-6 6-2 (1st R)
1992 -- Emilio Sanchez d. Javier Sanchez, 5-7 6-1 6-7 7-6 6-4 (3rd R)
Sisters Doubles Champions
1890 -- Ellen C. Roosevelt and Grace W. Roosevelt
1897-98 -- Juliette P. Atkinson and Kathleen Atkinson
1999 -- Serena Williams and Venus Williams
Sisters Doubles Runners-Up
1891 -- Ellen C. Roosevelt and Grace W. Roosevelt
1907 -- Edna Wildey and Natalie Wildey
Husband and Wife Mixed Champions
1905 -- Augusta Schultz Hobart and Clarence Hobart
Brothers Doubles Champions
1896 -- Carr B. Neel and Samuel R. Neel
1902-03 -- Reginald F. Doherty and Hugh L. Doherty
1924 -- Howard Kinsey and Robert Kinsey
2005 - Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan
Brothers Doubles Runners-Up
1892 -- Valentine G. Hall and Edward L. Hall
1894 -- Carr B. Neel and Samuel R. Neel
2003 -- Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan
Brother and Sister Mixed Doubles Runers-Up
1906 -- Margaret Johnson and J.B. Johnson
1991 -- Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario and Emilio Sanchez
Brothers Against Each Other (Mixed Doubles Final)
2002 -- Mike Bryan-Lisa Raymond d. Bob Byran-Katarina Srebotnik 7-6 7-6 (F)
Hello Mother, Hello Father
Since the beginning of the seeding system in 1927, only one mother-and-daughter combination has been able to earn seeding. Mrs. May Sutton Bundy, the national singles champion in 1904 and first non-British titlist at Wimbledon in 1905, was seeded in 1928 and 1929. Her daughter, Dorothy Bundy Cheney, was seeded 10 times between 1937 and 1955. No father-and-son combinations have ever achieved the distinction of both earning seeds.
However, at the 1998 US Open, Sandon Stolle put the Stolle men in the US Open record book. Stolle and partner Cyril Suk defeated Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor for the 1998 US Open men's doubles title. Stolle thereby joined his father, three-time U.S. doubles champion Fred Stolle, to become the only father-son combination to win U.S. doubles championships in their careers.
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