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Serena Williams #3 def. Venus Williams #8

7-6(6) 7-6(7)

Match Information

Date	Sep 4, 2008*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	QF
Winner	Serena Williams
Score	7-6(6) 7-6(7)
Loser	Venus Williams

Stat	Serena Williams	Venus Williams
Aces	7	8
Double faults	5	5
First serve %	67	61
First serve points won %	66	69
Second serve points won %	50	45
Break points saved %	60	67
Break points converted %	33	40
Service points won %	61	60
Return points won %	40	39
Total points won %	51	49

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Serena Williams	Venus Williams
Country	USA	USA
Birth date	Sep 26, 1981	Jun 17, 1980
Age	26	28
Height	175	185
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	3	8
Ranking points (entering)	3,341	2,586
Elo (entering)	2,100	2,057
Career W-L	825–170	768–288
Career earnings	$94,932,862	$43,095,580

Pre-match H2H

Serena Williams 8 – 8 Venus Williams

Path

Serena Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2008	R16	Severine Beltrame	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2008	R32	Ai Sugiyama	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 2008	R64	Elena Vesnina	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2008	R128	Kateryna Volodko	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Serena Williams's next match

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 2008	SF	Dinara Safina	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data

Venus Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2008	R16	Agnieszka Radwanska	6-1 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2008	R32	Alona Bondarenko	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 2008	R64	Rossana De Los Ríos	6-0 6-3	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2008	R128	Samantha Stosur	6-2 6-3	W	H2H	Match data