Venus Williams might have designed a better dress than that bullet-hole looking dress, especially, during that set point when she grabbed her stomach in pain in the first set. You would think she just got punched in the stomach by Sandra Zahlavova.
The American wrapped her thigh and played on while Zahlavova let slip a mighty change to knock out the Grand Slam champ. Williams played with all her will to advance.
As they say, one Williams Sister not playing, the other plays on…even through pain and suffering.
“It was really tough, but I’m a long way from home and it’s such a long way I didn’t want to go back yet,” Williams said. “You’ve got to be able to play under all kinds of circumstances—good, bad, strange, weird, all of the above. I had to just calm myself down. In the middle of a match like that, you can get a little hysterical.”
Things won’t get any easier for the American with Maria Sharapova, Justine Henin, Caroline Wozniacki, and Svetlana Kuznetsova, to name a few, on the side of her draw.