It was the day of Venus Williams. The US Tennis star thrashed her sister Venus Williams 5-7, 6-1, 6-0 Thursday to reach the semi-finals of the WTA Tour’s season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships. Serena Williams later called the match the worst of the year. Serena started to unravel early in the second set. She recalls it was difficult to keep the eyes on the ball.
Venus Williams won on her fifth match point, and is now 3-0 in round-robin play of a tournament finding her in the list of top eight players. Serena Williams dropped to 1-1, but still has chances of entering the semi-finals if she could win over Elena Dementieva on Friday. Dementieva had earlier thrashed out Dinara Sefina 6-2, 6-4, on Thursday which made Safina move out of the championships.

The Williams’ sisters are 9-9 in career match ups. Serena had earlier defeated Venus in the U.S. Open quarterfinals this year, and Venus won the title match at Wimbledon.

Venus was seen staying composed throughout the match, serving powerfully to frustrate Serena, and refrained from celebrating after winning. Venus was not sounding so enthusiastic after the match, when she told that that Serena did deserve a victory.
The first set was filled with power tennis while in the second set, Serena was seen growing frustrated by her errors. Venus grabbed two set points in the second while Serena double-faulted and converted the second with a crosscourt backhand that passed her younger sister at the net.

Top-ranked Jelena Jankovic had won over Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6 (6), 6-4 earlier to enter into the semi-final. The seventh-ranked Kuznetsova had to call for a trainer early in the second set for a back injury. Kuznetsova has one more round-robin match left but her chances are less as she has already lost twice.

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