Venus Williams Has a Vision of Tennis Grand Slam Sweep

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Published: November 19, 2010

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(November 19, 2010) Venus Williams was pumping her legs with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old chasing an ice cream truck, hurling herself over hills and cornering with precision during a heart-pumping work-out before a nation-wide audience yesterday. All that activity took place as Venus demonstrated a mountain bike workout on The Talk in a promotional push for EA Sports' Active 2 interactive video workout.

Showing no signs of stress from the left knee injury that prompted her to pull the plug on her season and limited her to 11 matches since the French Open, Williams has a much grander vision of for her return to tournament tennis.

Williams wants to complete the career Grand Slam in singles and mixed doubles and believes mastering a mixed major sweep may be more difficult than winning the Australian Open and French Open singles crowns currently missing from her collection.

"It's almost impossible to play singles, doubles and mixed doubles at one Grand Slam and I would love to hold all three titles at all of the majors," Venus told Reuters' Mark Lamport-Stokes. 

The seven-time Grand Slam singles champion partnered with Tennis Channel's Justin Gimelstob to win the 1998 Australian Open and French Open mixed crowns, but the pair lost to John McEnroe and Steffi Graf at Wimbledon. Venus, who was a 2002 French Open finalist and a 2003 Australian Open runner-up, says winning mixed may be most challenging.

"The one thing that seems elusive for me is the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon and the US Open," Williams told Reuters. "I've gotten close to winning the singles at the Australian (Open) and the French (Open) so I feel like that's within my reach. But the mixed, that's going to be the hard part."

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