Serena batters Pavlyuchenkova to join Venus in semis

Serena Williams battered Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-4 in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon on Tuesday, seizing on moments of weakness from the Russian to ram home her advantage.

Williams joins her sister Venus in the semi-finals on Thursday where she will meet another Russian, Elena Vesnina.

“We are playing doubles later so we are just so glad to both get through to the semi-finals,” Williams said.

 

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