e BJK Cup, and took home $400,000 from the $1.2 million exhibition tournament, while Venus took home $300,000.“I’m really excited about that opportunity. Hopefully it will continue to open more doors for women’s sports and women’s tennis.
The Williams sisters gave the crowd of 12,026 exactly what it wanted by advancing to the championship, but Venus was never the same after she was broken in a marathon game in the first set.
“The crowd was really nice, definitely,” said Venus Williams, who won the Mexican Open on Saturday night for her second WTA Tour title in two weeks. “I thought they were rooting for me to get back in and take it to the third, which I couldn’t quite do.”
Serena got to the final after beating Ana Ivanovic of Serbia, a former No. 1, 6-3 in a one-set semifinal, while Venus got past Jelena Jankovic of Serbia 6-4 to get to the final.
Both the Serbs recieved $250,000 for getting to the semis.
"It was really good, really intense," the 27-year-old world number one said.
Venus, who leads the sisters' WTA tournament head-to-head series 10-9, said: "I tried but Serena was too good."
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