Sister act on cards as Williams’s set for final showdown

IT HAS been a year of unprecedented shocks at Wimbledon, but a women’s final without either of the Williams sisters would arguably top the lot.

While their chief title rivals have helped create grand slam history by failing to reach even the quarter-finals, Venus and Serena have not dropped a set during their march to the last four.

Now, all that stands between them and a third all-Williams finale at the All England Club is the mentally fragile Elena Dementieva and the giant-killing Zheng Jie.