CBSSports.com: Error-prone Venus comes up short in winning yet another Slam

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com

NEW YORK -- Too many errors. Venus Williams made that concession, but isn't that always the way it is for the loser, whatever the sport?

Too many errors and something she wouldn't concede -- too many years.

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RealClearSports: Venus: Last Hope in Non-U.S. Open

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

NEW YORK -- The title of her new book is a terse summation of the woman. "Come to Win'' is Venus Williams' approach to life and tennis. And through a career remarkably long, she has won. But not lately.

So much is linked to Venus in the "How come they call it the U.S. Open when nobody in the U.S. can play anymore?'' Other than Serena Williams, who's out with an injury. And other than older sister Venus, who's battling the years along with her opponents.

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CBSSports.com: This U.S. Open coming up short on Americans

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com

NEW YORK -- One singular sensation. A song lyric from A Chorus Line. A fact of tennis from the not-so-U.S. Open. The last two Americans went back-to-back Tuesday on a court named for a historic American, Arthur Ashe, and only one managed to survive.

Out went Sam Querrey, if stubbornly, and after he disappeared from view, from the draw, on came Venus Williams, who wasn't going anywhere, except to the semifinals.

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CBSSports.com: Venus had Peer's back in Dubai, and Peer never forgot

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com

NEW YORK -- One is an African-American. The other is an Israeli. They've faced each other across a net more than once, including Sunday in the U.S. Open, but more than rivals they are friends, linked by the discrimination they've faced.

Venus Williams you know. She's a Grand Slam champion, and she took a step toward another Slam by beating Shahar Peer, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3, in the third round of the U.S. Open.

Then again, maybe this is the Venus Williams you don't know.

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RealClearSports: Sweat and Panic Fill Big Apple Summer

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

NEW YORK -- Hot, baby. Maybe not enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk, but plenty hot. Literally -- on-court temperature Tuesday afternoon during the U.S. Open was something like 110 degrees -- symbolically, as the headlines indicate.

This is always the best time of the year in, to modify that Snapple commercial a bit, the best sporting place on earth. There's sweat. And panic, the two staples of a New York sporting summer. There's variety.

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