Venus Williams:-
(born June 17, 1980) is a former World No. 1 American tennis player who, as of May 11, 2009, is ranked World No. 3. She has won the Wimbledon singles title the last two years and is the reigning Wimbledon and Australian Open doubles champion. She is the older sister of Serena Williams, currently ranked No. 2.
Since joining the Women's Tennis Association tour in 1994, Williams has won 56 titles, which includes 17 Grand Slam titles - seven in singles, eight in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles.
US, Russian women in final 4
Venus Williams in action during her quarterfinal match against Agnieszka Radwanska on Tuesday. Venus won 6-1, 6-2.
Williams, the third seed, overwhelmed Radwanska in just over an hour and her pursuit of a sixth Wimbledon crown looks unstoppable. Venus will face Dinara Safina, the top seed and world number one, in the last four as she continues her bid to become the first woman to win a hat-trick of Wimbledon singles’ titles since Steffi Graf in 1993. 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 do a lot of good things right. That first set for me was really almost perfect,” Venus said. “The second set I think I got a little bit impatient the first couple of games, but I was able to mentally bring it back and realized that maybe I did have to hit a few more balls, because everyone lifts their game, especially after a first set that was one sided. Do I feel invincible? I’d like to say yes, but I really do work at it.”
World number one Dinara Safina reached the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time with a 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 6-1 win over unseeded German teenager Sabine Lisicki. Despite losing the first set by double-faulting on a tie-break, the top-seeded Russian recovered to beat the world number 41 in two hours, 28 minutes
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