Davenport plans straightforward approach

Lindsay Davenport will be aiming to go back to basics when she meets Maria Sharapova for a place in the women’s singles final at Wimbledon.

The former champion, seeded five this year by the All England Club, swept aside the challenge of giant-killer Karolina Sprem in the quarter-finals yesterday but knows she faces a stern examination by Russian teenager Sharapova tomorrow.