Venus sees off sister Serena to seal Doha semi-final spot

VENUS WILLIAMS reached the semi-finals of the Sony Ericsson Championships yesterday with a hard-fought 5-7 6-1 6-0 win against her sister Serena to stay undefeated in three matches in Doha.

Serena Williams was in superb form in the first set and looked on course to win her second match of the tournament but she failed to maintain the momentum and Venus powered to take the next two sets, dropping just one game.

“I’m pretty excited,” Venus said. “When I go down I always seem to come back again. I started serving a little more consistently and I tried to cut down on errors and I did that, especially in the last part of the match.