Women’s quarter-finals day at Wimbledon saw success for Serena and Venus Williams as well as Angelique Kerber and Elena Vesnina.
Top seed Serena beat 21st seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-4, 6-4 to reach the last four while Venus beat Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 7-6(5), 6-2 to advance.
Angelique Kerber gained a narrow win over Romania’s Simona Halep in a 7-5, 7-6(2) encounter to book a semi-final match with Venus Williams.
Meanwhile, Elena Vesnina will face Serena Williams in the last four after skipping past Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-2.
Tomas Berdych, the 10th seed, beat fellow Czech Jiri Vesely 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(8), 6-7(9), 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals.
