Venus
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Venus has lost her past 13 singles matches but has had more success in the doubles, reaching the quarter-finals of the women's tournament in New York last year.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Serena produced two service winners to force the tie-break back on serve, but Kostyuk and Stearns held firm before securing victory on a double fault from Venus.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It’s been hard to tell what kind of comeback Williams is pursuing—if this is a quick resurfacing to play with Venus, or if she intends to fully recommit to the tour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Open, where Venus is set to play mixed doubles with Alexander Bublik.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Greatly reassured they took the path Venus pointed out, protected, although they did not know it, by a thick mist she wrapped around them.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Pruitt sees “a fertile space of reflection” between his two Venuses.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
The chaos of three time zones and daylight saving couldn’t stop us from deconstructing the lens of art history, which, McCormack argues, wants to confine women to four categories: Venuses, mothers, damsels or monsters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
For now, studying Venus up close may be the only route to reliable estimates of which is more common in the cosmos: Earths or Venuses.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2021
Like his sad-eyed Venuses who float just beyond reality, this young man has his mind on the infinite.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2020
The painting of the seventeenth century passed on towards the eighteenth, and, from ceilings and panels, rosy nymphs and Venuses smile at us, attitudinising and contorted upon their cloudy backgrounds.
From The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps
