Venus out for revenge against Serena’s conqueror

VENUS WILLIAMS will bid to avenge sister Serena’s US Open quarter-final defeat to top-seed Justine Henin at Flushing Meadows tonight when she gets her chance against the French Open champion in the last four.

Henin powered past eighth seed Serena Williams in their quarter-final, winning 7-6, 6-1 against the Australian Open champion on Tuesday night. That gave Venus Williams added incentive to come through her own quarter-final on Wednesday night, when the Wimbledon champion, seeded eighth in this last grand slam of the year, needed a third-set tiebreak to get past third seed Jelena Jankovic.

Venus Williams said she took her sister’s defeat personally and added: “I wasn’t happy with the result at all, to say the very least.