When Venus and Serena first played each other …
Rostick
Jan. 26, 2017
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January 1998, Venus defeats Serena 7-6 6-1 in the Australian Open 2nd round. Fast forward 19 years and 26 H2H meetings later: the two sisters will meet again, at the highest level: the AO2017 final.
17 year old Martina Hingis had just become youngest ever World No.1
Roger Federer was yet to play a match at senior level
Milos Raonic was celebrating his 7th birthday
Michael Jordan had not yet won his last NBA championship
Google did not exist
MP3 players did not exist
Intel launches ground breaking 333 MHz Pentium II Processor
Internet Explorer becomes the No.1 web browser at the expense of Netscape
The accelerated expansion of the Universe was still unknown
There was no EURO currency
Frank Sinatra was still alive
Seinfeld was the No.1 show on television
Titanic was killing it in theaters
When Nokia 3310 was launched, Venus and Serena had already met 5 times and owned 3 singles Grand Slam titles between them
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Super! The history of tenis…:)
the last one is incredible