Justin Timberlake hosted the 2008 ESPY Awards last night and from the looks of it, the show looked to be very eventful! JT performed and joked all night long and presented awards to some of the best athletes in the various sports categories. There were many nominees, presenters and categories at the ESPYs, but to find out who won you’ll have to tune in to the show once it airs on July 20th @ 8PM on ESPN. Check out more photos from the show below and after the cut.
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WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND // SATURDAY, JULY 5TH 2008 » Venus & Serena Williams played the final womens’ singles match in the 2008 Wimbledon Championship today in Wimbledon. Venus came out the winner of a very close tiresome match against her sister Serena and was awarded the Venus Rosewater Dish! They both played so ambitiously and you can tell it took at toll on both of them. Venus won both sets (7-5, 6-4) to defeat her sister to claim her 5th Wimbledon title and 7th Grand Slam Championship. Within the first sets, Venus & Serena went back and forth with intense signatures force screams making the game more intense to watch.
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WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND // THURSDAY, JULY 3RD 2008 » Venus & Serena Williams are at it again dominating in the 2008 Wimbledon Championship games once again! They’ve beaten every challenger they’ve been matched within the lineups. Serena was matched against Zhang Jie of China and took another victory of her to add to all the rest of the won sets in the tournament. Serena hit 14 aces in a (6-2, 7-6) winning the match! Serena also played a doubles match with sister Venus the day prior. Serena holds the 8-7 career edge over her sister Venus but they both still managed to dominate together. Serena says she was definitely challenged by Zhang Jie and it wasn’t easy:
“She definitely pushed me, Serena said, Unbelievable, and not only that she played a great game. She played like she had nothing to lose and she didn’t. I wanted to do more than maker a Wimbledon final, she added. I’m just happy to be back in a Grand Slam final.”
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SERENA, COMMON, AND VENUS // PHOTOS BY MARK VON HOLDEN FOR WIRE IMAGE
Venus Williams, along with some industry friends and her sister Serena, celebrated the launch of her brand new clothing line, EleVen at club Tenjune in New York. Check out more photos from the party after the cut.
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Venus, is that you? Lol. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, the world’s leading global sport for women, announced today the selection and funding of women’s leadership programs in Cameroon, Liberia, China, Jordan and the Dominican Republic, along with a new global advertising campaign designed to raise awareness and promote the goal of gender equality. Venus Williams (pictured above) is a part of the advertising campaign, elevision spots as well as a print ad, is expected to be run by a number of international and national broadcasters, including Eurosport, Zee Sports in India, NTV in Russia and the Tennis Channel in the USA. The ads are designed to raise awareness and promote the goal of gender equality and women’s leadership. They are also designed to introduce the Tour’s rising star players as global role models for women’s leadership in their role as Promoters of Gender Equality. The television spots and print advertisements can be viewed on the Tour’s official website.
In addition, Venus Williams’ clothing line, “Eleven,” and her retail partner Steve & Barry’s, announced today that they have created a special Venus Williams/UNESCO tee shirt that will be sold at Steve & Barry’s retail outlets, online at the Tour’s official website and at select Tour tournaments, with the net proceeds from sales to be donated to the UNESCO-Sony Ericsson WTA Tour partnership.
Is it just me, or does homegirl look like a straight up dude? I really hope this get-up was just for this event Lol, since it is about gender equality and what-not…
