Venus Williams is a person that plays tennis.
The 2000 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon , London in England . The Grand Slam tournaments , also called majors , are the four most-important annual tennis events . Venus Ebony Starr Williams ( born June 17 , 1980 ) is an American professional tennis player who is generally regarded as one of the all-time greats of women 's tennis and who , along with younger sister Serena Williams , is credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women 's professional tennis tour . She has also won fourteen Grand Slam doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles .