Serena wins to secure sibling showdown

Fourth seed Serena Williams will face older sister Venus in the quarter-finals of the US Open after easing to a 6-2 6-2 victory over France’s Severine Bremond tonight.

The first set was level at 2-2 after the opening four games, but Serena picked up the next four to wrap up the opening set on the Arthur Ashe court in 27 minutes after converting two of three break opportunities.

Two-time champion Serena continued to dominate the contest and surged into a 3-0 lead at the start of the second, and after world number 121 Bremond recovered, the American wrapped up the win in 60 minutes to set up a repeat of July’s Wimbledon final.

On that occasion, Venus beat Serena to win a fifth Wimbledon title to level the career meetings between the pair at 8-8.

Earlier, two-time US Open champion Venus, the seventh seed, also dropped only four games in beating Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets.