Why It Really Seems Like Old Times For Venus Williams In Australia

— -- MELBOURNE, Australia -- Venus Williams played Lindsay Davenport for the first time in 1997 at Indian Wells. They played 26 additional times -- more often than Venus has played any other opponent -- including twice in the final at Wimbledon, which Williams won each time.

Davenport is 38, retired from singles, a TV commentator, married and the mother of four. Meanwhile, Venus is still playing, returning to her old form, and to further show how she is still thriving when past opponents are concentrating more on their IRA accounts, about to play an Australian Open quarterfinal against someone Davenport coaches: 19-year-old Madison Keys.

How much younger is Keys than Venus? "She started watching me when she was in diapers,'' said Venus, who turns 35 this summer.

Or perhaps in her mother's womb. Keys wasn't even born when Venus played her first WTA tournament.