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Serena reached Saturday's championship match by beating the world's top-ranked player, Martina Hingis in Friday's semifinals, before Venus eliminated No. 2 Jennifer Capriati, with proud papa Richard snapping photographs from the stands all the while. It wasn't too surprising that one Williams or the other might reach the final here - Serena won the 1999 Open, and Venus did last year. Their seedings (Venus at No. 4, Serena at No. 10) suffer, though, because they don't play as often as other stars. Sisters Sledgehammer also are celebrities, gracing Time magazine's cover last week and earning millions in endorsement deals with companies such as Revlon and Wrigley Doublemint gum. They play a none-too-subtle, power-driven style of tennis that was not to be found in 1884, when Maud Watson beat her younger sibling
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