Revisiting Serena Williams vs. Venus Williams: This is who has the sting within the legendary sibling rivalry

As Venus Williams makes her return to skilled tennis, there’s just one factor that may make her comeback even sweeter — if Serena joins her. The sisters who dominated the ladies’s sport for practically twenty years with 30 mixed Grand Slam titles met 31 occasions on the court docket, starting with the Australian Open in 1998, and it will seem there is a distant likelihood we might see them once more.

“She will take six months off and he or she clocks it clear,” Venus stated her youthful sister forward of her July look within the D.C. Open. “You possibly can’t train that type of expertise. She’s simply so good.”

Serena is 19-12 all-time towards Venus, together with 11 wins in majors and a 7-2 mark in Grand Slam finals. There was a stretch from 2002-03 the place the Williams sisters performed one another within the championship spherical of 5 straight majors, together with twice at Wimbledon. 

Billed because the “Serena Slam,” she gained all 5 titles throughout these two seasons throughout the stretch. Serena holds the all-time file for singles majors titles within the Open period with 23, yet one more than Steffi Graf.

Identified for her uncooked energy with an intense forehand and depraved serve, Serena stepped away from skilled tennis in 2022 however stated she was not retiring in a conventional sense. Constructing an empire with husband Alexis Ohanian — the founding father of Reddit — and household time with the couple’s two children was the objective.

This is a take a look at the pair’s head-to-head battles on the court docket:

Serena vs. Venus profession matches

Venus is a seven-time Grand Slam champion and beforehand had obtained a wild-card entry for BNP Paribas Open in February 2025 earlier than not committing to play within the occasion. 

Venus and Serena have additionally gained 22 doubles titles collectively, highlighted by 14 majors and three Olympic Gold medals. 

Ladies’s tennis is now carried by Iga Światek, Aryna Sabalenka and others. Światek is a six-time majors champion, her newest coming at Wimbledon this summer time. Sabalenka has three Grand Slam titles, together with the US Open and Australian in 2024. 

Present world No. 2 Coco Gauff, an American, gained the US Open in 2023 and took residence the crown on clay on the French earlier this 12 months for her second main. Gauff beforehand stated the Williams sisters had been her two idols in tennis and he or she grew up with a photograph of the pair on her bed room wall.

“If it wasn’t for the Williams sisters, Coco wouldn’t be a tennis participant,” Candi, Coco’s mom, stated earlier than Wimbledon in June. “And if it wasn’t for Richard (Williams), my husband wouldn’t have studied tennis in that format. He is patented himself off (the household) and used their roadmap.”