Win worth the wait as Henin finishes Williams tennis sweep

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Justine Henin had not played Venus Williams in 4 1/2 years but she found the outcome well worth the wait, completing a rare sweep of the Williams sisters Friday to reach the US Open women's final.

World number one Henin defeated the reigning Wimbledon champion 7-6 (7/2), 6-4 in a showdown of six-time Grand Slam champions to book a date in Saturday night's championship match against Russian fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Kuznetsova, whose only Slam title came at the 2004 US Open, defeated Russian sixth seed Anna Chakvetadze 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 in an error-filled semi-final that only cemented the notion of the Williams-Henin winner as a title favorite.

Putting past defeats behind her, Henin took a new-found confidence stemming in...

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