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Venus Williams#2 def. Justine Henin#5

6-3 6-3

Match Information

Date	Jan 26, 2003*
Tournament	Australian Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	SF
Winner	Venus Williams
Score	6-3 6-3
Loser	Justine Henin

No match stats are available for this match.

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Venus Williams	Justine Henin
Country	USA	BEL
Birth date	Jun 17, 1980	Jun 1, 1982
Age	22	20
Height	185	167
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	One-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	2	5
Ranking points (entering)	4,942	3,207
Elo (entering)	2,304	2,046
Career W-L	768–289	442–102
Career earnings	$43,077,000	$20,863,335

Pre-match H2H

Venus Williams 6 – 1 Justine Henin

Path

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2003	QF	Daniela Hantuchova	6-4 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2003	R16	Nicole Pratt	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2003	R32	Anca Barna	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 17, 2003	R64	Ansley Cargill	6-3 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 15, 2003	R128	Svetlana Kuznetsova	6-4 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Venus Williams's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 27, 2003	F	Serena Williams	7-6(4) 3-6 6-4	L	H2H	Match data

Justine Henin's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Jan 24, 2003	QF	Virginia Ruano Pascual	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 22, 2003	R16	Lindsay Davenport	7-5 5-7 9-7	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 19, 2003	R32	Katarina Srebotnik	6-2 6-0	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 17, 2003	R64	Anna Kournikova	6-0 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Jan 15, 2003	R128	Myriam Casanova	6-3 6-4	W	H2H	Match data