Williams sisters on course for big showdown

SERENA WILLIAMS claimed she would be prepared to match the men by playing five-set matches after making a perfect run through to the Wimbledon semi-finals.

The Williams sisters remain on course to meet in Saturday’s final thanks to comfortable wins in their respective quarter-final matches yesterday. Venus raced into the last four with a 6-1 6-2 win over Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska on Court One, and was soon joined in the next round by younger sibling Serena, the two-time champion spending a little over an hour on court, cruising to a 6-2 6-3 win over teenager Victoria Azarenka to set up a last-four meeting with Elena Dementieva.

Women players now receive equal prize money in the grand slams despite still playing best-of-three-set matches but Williams insists she is ready to make the step up.