Venus moves closer to Serena meeting

Venus Williams moved to within one win of a possible semi-final against her younger sister Serena after beating one of the tour’s most spectacularly rising players in Dubai on Wednesday.

The Wimbledon champion scored an impressively solid win over Alize Cornet, a 19-year-old from Nice who has risen more than 50 places in little more than a year to within one slot of the world’s top ten.

After an absorbing first set, Venus made light of the threat, imposed her forceful game upon the tactical patterns which Cornet tried to create, and made many more forays to the net than she used to, eventually winning by a slightly misleading 6-3, 6-1.

DUBAI, Wednesday, AFP