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from tennis story in NY Times yesterday. Wonder where she got it?
"In the evening's first match, Venus Williams began her campaign for a third Open singles title with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Samantha Stosur of Australia and started on a collision course toward the quarterfinals, where she could play her sister Serena.
At times, Williams's victory was a clinical, ruthless display of power and confidence that sent a clear message to the rest of the women's field. At others, particularly in the second set, the sluggishness that resulted from playing at the Olympics seemed to creep into her game. She made 22 unforced errors.
``I thought it was just really straightforward tonight, nothing super special,'' Williams said. ``I didn't try anything too crazy.''
As she was at Wimbledon, Williams is seeded seventh here. But that hardly slowed her down at the All-England Club, where she reached the final without dropping a set and beat her sister to win her fifth championship there.
Stosur also won at Wimbledon in the mixed doubles, where she competed with Bob Bryan. But she has missed time in the past season and a half as she battled Lyme disease.
Williams was aggressive from the start, lurking well inside the baseline on Stosur's serve and charging the net with abandon. She broke Stosur in three of her first four service games and three more times in the match. Stosur broke back once in the first set, but she did not deliver the shots on her other break points to capitalize.
Stosur found her rhythm-- or something closer to it -- in the second set. She even took a 3-1 lead after breaking Williams's serve. But Williams found another gear and muscled her way back to 3-3, then on to the victory.
``That's when I play my best, when I'm down,'' Williams said.
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Why would she miss so much time? All she needed was 10 days of Doxycycline and she'd have been all cured.
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