Eurosport - Wed, 01 Jul 09:11:00 2009
Defending champion Venus Williams hammered out a warning to her Wimbledon rivals as she cruised into the semi-finals with a 6-1 6-2 victory over 11th seed Agnieszka Radwanska.
Williams, the third seed, completely overwhelmed Radwanska in just over an hour and her pursuit of a sixth Wimbledon crown looks unstoppable.
For the eighth time in 10 years, the five-time Wimbledon champion has reached the semi-finals here. Even sister Serena, a two-time champion herself, will struggle to subdue Venus in this mood if they meet in the final.
Venus has yet to drop a set in five rounds this year and her winning streak at the All England Club has now reached 19 matches.
Even more remarkably, she has won 32 consecutive sets here since Japan's Akiko Morigami took the second set of their third round match in 2007.
"I felt myself playing well for quite a few games there," Venus said. "I'm in the semi-finals, it's right where I want to be and I'm looking to take it a step further."
Williams has been suffering from a left knee injury that slightly restricts her movement and she walked onto Court One with the knee heavily bandaged again.
The 20-year-old Radwanska became only the second Polish woman to reach the last eight of a Grand Slam at the Australian Open last year and followed that achievement by making the quarter-finals at Wimbledon a few months later.
But playing Williams at this stage of Wimbledon was a far more daunting proposition.
A typically aggressive start from Venus underlined the point as she broke in the second game. Even though Radwanska tried to keep Venus on the move to test her injury, the American's power-game took over.
Williams broke again with a flashing forehand return before closing out the first set with two aces.
An error-strewn Venus service game allowed Radwanska to break at the start of the second set.
But Venus turned up the heat and broke straight back. The decisive break followed in the fifth game and Williams drove home the advantage to go through.
She will play top seed Dinara Safina as she continues her bid to become the first woman to win a hat-trick of Wimbledon singles' titles since Steffi Graf in 1993, after the Russian battled past unseeded German Sabine Lisicki 6-7(5) 6-3 6-1.
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Africanamericansv you are completly correct. And Native Americans are NOT in anyway Indian, same as West Indians minus the ones that were shipped to the Caribbean as indentured slaves. There was nothing racist about your comment just truth and history.
Anyway Serena and Venus for a Williams final. Be there or be square.
africanamericansv: Do me the courtesy of dropping the derogatory term "Native American." There are identified American Indians writing comments on the Yahoo UK tennis sites who find that political reference deeply offensive, as offensive as some persons of your persuasion find the cursed "N" word. The USA government branded us with that gross term in the 1960's but, thankfully, has begun to wipe it from official references and modern history books after pressure from our tribes. No single America Indian tribe is "native," to the USA. Finally DNA has proved it to the boneheads who ibnstigateed that punishment. these are tennis columns, get off your racial perch and try acting like a plain human being, the "race" to which all Earth-people belong.
Let's talk about the British, they created aparthied, import 45 million African slaves. Murder the 5 million Native Americans and 8 million Aboriginal killed 20 million Indians. The Klan are really Brits, the most racist redneck states in the US are really British people. Where they lynched black people for sport. Now here comes two gorgeous African American women, so how I can't see the British liking them. Just look at the british track record on dealing with non whites. I really do not care what these people think or say I leave them to God.
hey williams haterzz
how are you,..? haha lol
en for dinara noo chanche in the semi's
she knows it,..!!
i think frank bruno can win wimbledon
All these comments, and few are actually about tennis!
We have racism, sycophancy, democracy, anarchy, nationalism and plain old mentally deranged!
I am most certainly not a Williams fan, but if i have to choose one, i'd rather Venus Williams wins as she has at least some modicum of class. She also does not solely rely on brute force, like her sister.
Samm, is your life that sad?
samm you mus be the sonofabitch! how dare you call the willams animals and @#$%
If Venus and Serena are males I am willing to be called a homosexual
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anyway i shall get off my sensible bit and back to normal, murray is a turd, ah, so much better, dont you think???
Mike, i think you might find the financial institutions might have had a hand in bankrupting a nation. Also who would you have preferred, the Bush clone, war mongering tw at instead ??
Amy two of the guys you mention are half white, and before you bite my head off, i do not give a flying fu ck about colour [apart from what is on my walls]
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i agree with some of your points amy.
although lewis hamilton isn't anywhere near as good as michael schumacher, and how can you say obama is best president? he's only just been elected. its nothing to do with sport anyway.
Hi Amy - fair enough - let's hope there is some great tennis in store for the rest of the week
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Hi M H, I agree what you said about this frame (who cares - any great sportsman or sportswoman will appreciate the individual's ability regardless of colour or creed.) So i just i mention some greats black sports man & women to teach those jerk racist Like Samm Pig.
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