Venus Williams #3 def. Monica Seles #5

6-1 4-6 6-3

Match Information

Date: Sep 27, 2000*
Tournament: Sydney Olympics
Edition: 2000
Category: Olympics
Surface: Hard
Round: SF

Match Statistics

Detailed match statistics are not available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Venus Williams	Monica Seles
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Jun 17, 1980	Dec 2, 1973
Age	20	26
Height	185	178
Handedness	Right-Handed	Left-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	3	5
Ranking points (entering)	4,336	2,791
Elo (entering)	2,349	2,175
Career W-L	781–294	586–123
Career earnings	$43,095,580	$14,891,762

Pre-match H2H

Venus Williams #3 4 – 0 Monica Seles #5

Path

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 26, 2000	QF	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario #9	3-6 6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 25, 2000	R16	Jana Kandarr #73	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 23, 2000	R32	Tamarine Tanasugarn #41	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 21, 2000	R64	Henrieta Nagyova #74	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Venus Williams's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 28, 2000	F	Elena Dementieva #16	6-2 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Monica Seles's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 26, 2000	QF	Dominique Monami #17	6-0 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 25, 2000	R16	Nathalie Dechy #20	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 23, 2000	R32	Miriam Oremans #79	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 21, 2000	R64	Katalin Marosi #109	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data