It was Venus

Photo sources: (in order) Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Glenn Campbell/Pool

. . . but one of the finest experiences in all of women's sports is when Venus is on form

Photo source: Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Alessia Pierdomenico, pool; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

Nice, Ana, nice . . .

Photo source: Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Alessia Pierdomenico, pool; oo! News/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Toby Melville; Yahoo! News/AFP/Glenn Campbell

. . . Still the lioness roared

Serena in her match with Daniela Hantuchova on July 2nd. But she represented well; more than that, she represented on, how we define, the real side: not-rapp, not-talk. real. Down, yeah. You done good, Serena, you done good.

Photo sources: Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

You have to give Justine Henin credit for defeating Serena in a third set . . .

Photo source: Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

. . . and stop the presses! much to my amazement, the PROC's Yan and Peng defeated the ROC's 3 seeded Chan and Chuang 6-3 6-2

Insights on what's really going on with Yan and Peng Pictured the People's Republic's Yan Zi in her first round Wimbledon loss to Italy's Tathiana Garbin.

Photo sources: Yahoo! News/AFP/Chris Young; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/David Moir; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/David Moir

. . Venus handled Sharapova . . .

Maria in her Wimbledon white . . .

. . . and in her French Open blue, one of the high points, I thought, of that tournament in that it drew finally decent photos of her (sorry, the credits for other of those photos are no longer available):

Photo credits: (in order) Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Toby Melville; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Toby Melville; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

. . . Meanwhile also in the fourth round, Marion Bartoli of France . . .

. . .(yes, the Marion Bartoli who is Meilen Tu's doubles partner) took out the formidable and Wimbledon warm up Birmingham Classic champion of two weeks ago Jelena Jankovic . . .

Photo sources: (in order) Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Alastair Grant; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Alastair Grant; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

These women have game! Young Nurnberg-born Prague-resident Nicole Vaidisova . . .

. . . sent the veteran and defending champ Mauresmo packing

Photo sources: (all) Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Allyson, retake

I was trying to see if I could retrieve some of Allyson from the news photo first left below taken from my just previous post. I put it through a variety of image editing software (none of which I am by any measure an expert on), but some people don't know where to stop. Clearly, I need a plugin; already on it.

2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships: Allyson Felix, 200 meter dash gold

Immediately below, Allyson Felix finishes ahead of Sanya Richards. Second below, Allyson is pictured beating Mikele Barber to the tape.

Photo sources: Yahoo! News: AP Photo/Michael Conroy; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/AJ Mast; Yahoo! News/AFP/Jeff Haynes; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Brent Smith; Yahoo! News: AP Photo/Michael Conroy; Yahoo! News: AP Photo/Michael Conroy;Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Brent Smith