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LeBron James -- er, Venus Williams -- advances at Dubai Championships

Venus Williams had no trouble against Ana Ivanovic on Wednesday. (Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images) Venus Williams needed only 56 minutes to dismiss No. 12 Ana
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LeBron James -- er, Venus Williams -- advances at Dubai Championships
LeBron James -- er, Venus Williams -- advances at Dubai Championships

Venus Williams had no trouble against Ana Ivanovic on Wednesday. (Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

Venus Williams needed only 56 minutes to dismiss No. 12 Ana Ivanovic 6-2, 6-1 in the second round of the Dubai Championships on Wednesday.

With her best victory of the season, the 44th-ranked Williams avenged a three-set loss to Ivanovic in the ASB Classic final last month. In fact, setting aside a victory over then-No. 2 Victoria Azarenka at the Pan Pacific Open last September (Azarenka was shockingly bad in that match), this was Williams' biggest win since defeating 10th-ranked Sara Errani at the Western & Southern Open in August 2012.

So how good was Venus on Tuesday? So good that the Dubai tournament Twitter feed mistook her for four-time NBA MVP LeBron James.

The tournament quickly deleted the tweet and chalked it up to an Instagram glitch, but nothing escapes the quick-fingered screencappers of the world.

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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