From the ArcaMax Publishing, Sports Update Newsletter:
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WIMBLEDON, England (UPI) -- Serena and Venus Williams each advanced to
the semifinals of The Championships at Wimbledon, pulling just a pair
of matches away from an all-Williams final.
Serena Williams, seeded sixth, blitzed 14th-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska
6-4, 6-0 while Venus Williams, seeded seventh and the defending
champion, beat Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 6-3 in getting through
Tuesday's quarterfinals.
Surprising Jie Zheng, having eliminated top-seeded Ana Ivanovic and
No. 15 Agnes Szavay, pulled off her third consecutive upset by getting
past 18th-seeded Nicole Vaidisova, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1, and No. 5-seeded
Elena Dementieva beat 21st-seeded Nadia Petrova, 6-1, 6-7 (6-8), 6-3,
in Tuesday's other matches.
Venus Williams needed just 95 minutes to get by Tanasugarn. Firing
eight aces when serving and breaking Tanasugarn's serve four times
when not.
She will meet Dementieva in Thursday's semifinals. Dementieva led 6-1,
5-1 before staggering through the rest of the second set. It was far
from a perfect match with Dementieva piling up nine double faults and
three service breaks against Petrova's 42 unforced errors and six
breaks.
Serena Williams shut out Radwanska in 19 minutes in the second set to
close out her quarterfinal win. Zheng was nearly as sharp in her third
set as she became the first Chinese player to make a Grand Slam
semifinal.
If they both win Thursday, the Williams sisters would meet in the
Wimbledon finals for the third time. Serena Williams won the previous
meetings in 2002 and 2003.