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No tune-ups, no problem for the Williamses at Wimbledon

By Sandra Harwitt
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, June 26, 2008

It's definitely an interesting phenomenon: No matter how the Williams sisters are playing coming into Wimbledon -- good, bad or just so-so -- when they get to the hallowed All England Club grounds, they are considered odds-on favorites. It's not that far-fetched considering that in six of the past eight years, one or the other of the Williams sisters has been the queen of Wimbledon -- Venus won in '00, '01, '05 and '07, and Serena won in '02 and '03. In the only two years in that span that a ...

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