Tennis Veteran Venus Williams Painfully Harks Back to the Time When Sister Serena Williams Humiliated Her On-Court – ‘Not the Best Feeling..’

Venus Williams and Serena Williams are two sisters who grew up very close to each other. They learned tennis together and entered several competitions together. Even though they were quite close, the two were also fierce rivals. In fact, the two were each other’s biggest rivals. They have faced each other 31 times with Serena leading 19 times. Venus also suffered many losses in finals and semifinals at the hands of her sister. But one of her worst defeats happened because she was unable to face her sister in the final of a grand slam. A slam that Serena won.

Venus Williams shares the story of her biggest defeat

In an online interview with Nelson Boyce, Venus Williams opened up on many aspects of her life. One of the things she talked about was her rivalry with her sister, Serena Williams. The two have fought in many grand slams in the finals rounds. They both reached the semifinal of the 1999 US Open final. Serena faced Lindsay Davenport and Venus faced Martina Hingis.

Serena prevailed and went on the win the final. However, Venus lost her match. As per Queen V, she was too nervous and too doubtful. Venus was 19 and Serena had turned 17.

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“One of my biggest losses was definitely one of my biggest lessons. And that was way back in the 90s,” Venus recalled. “I just turned 19. And then Serena and I are both in the US Open finals. You can imagine I just turned 19, she’s 17 years old, we’re just kids. We’re both in the semi-finals and I just remember being unable to handle the moment just too nervous, just too doubtful.”

Venus added that she faltered quite a bit before and during the match while Serena went on to win the Slam. She said that it was an amazing feat for a 17-year-old. For Venus, it was a horrible defeat, as she wanted to be the first Williams to win a final. Venus added that she thought of herself as the weakest link and it was the worst feeling for her.

“And faltering. And she went on to win that semi-final and win the tournament, as you know, 17-year-old, it was amazing. But that was a horrible loss for me, because, of course, I wanted to be the first Williams final and to be the weakest link. There was not the best feeling in the world.”

Although the loss was crushing, she became even more motivated to train hard and show her own glory to the world. “So that loss really crushed me. But it also really motivated me to say I’m going to do whatever it takes to be great.”

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Venus went on to become one of the players to watch out for very soon as she won her first grand slam in 2000, which was Wimbledon. Later on, she won many more and became number 1 quite soon.