We're just going for history now, says Serena as father flies out
                   
guardian.co.uk     05-Jul-2008            

Today's all-Williams Centre Court show is their third sister act at Wimbledon The Williams sisters' father, Richard, flew home yesterday as he could not bear to watch today's final and see one of his daughters beat the other to win Wimbledon. Instead of twitching in the stands or, as has been his wont for their six previous grand slam finals together, pacing around the grounds, Williams will be in Florida. "He went home. He always tries to give us the best of advice, so I'm sure he said something to Serena. She didn't tell me, but basically he's coach all the way through," said Venus, sitting a few inches away from her sister after they reached the women's doubles final together by beating Casey Dellacqua and Nathalie Dechy 6-3, 6-3 in yesterday's semi-finals. In that final, also scheduled for Centre Court today a couple of... [read full story]                    


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