Serena sorry final is not a Williams family affair

SERENA WILLIAMS heads into her sixth Wimbledon final today as one of the hottest favourites on record, but insists she would much rather be facing the imposing figure of her sister Venus on the other side of the net.

Williams will start at almost unbackable odds to defeat world number 21 Vera Zvonareva, whose gutsy fight through the draw to reach her first grand slam final cannot disguise the fact that she is considered a bit-part player in another Williams coronation.

Venus, shockingly defeated by Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova in the quarter-finals, might have been expected to provide Serena with a much sterner test, but Serena is adamant she would have preferred a fifth Wimbledon final against her sister.