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Williams, who is pregnant with her first child, said it is actually “pretty fantastic” to be on the sidelines as other players, including her sister, Venus Williams, march toward the trophy.

Venus Williams’ appearance in January’s Australian Open final wasn’t, as it turned out, a temporary return to the head table of grand slam tennis for the 37-year-old.

Five-time victor Venus Williams is through to the Wimbledon Championships final after claiming a straight sets win over Great Britain’s Johanna Konta at the All England Lawn Tennis Club.

The key, for both players, was to deal with the big serve.

She will get a second chance at the title on Saturday against either five-time champion Venus Williams or Johanna Konta.

Earlier on Thursday, the Chicago White Sox traded pitcher Jose Quintana to the Chicago Cubs.

The win sets up a quarter-final clash against Czech 11th seed Tomas Berdych next for Djokovic, who admitted his shoulder was causing him some issues.

“It’s a really exceptional tennis player that we have, that our sport has right now”, he said of third-seeded Federer.

Experience triumphed over youth on Centre Court as Venus downed Croatian teenager Ana Konjuh 6-3 6-2 in a fourth-round battle of the baseliners. Her own service did far more of the talking. I would like to play, you know, in straight sets every round.

Raonic is 3-9 all-time against Federer, and 1-1 at Wimbledon heading into Wednesday’s 6:30 a.m. ET semifinal.

After a semi-final exit at the French Open and a loss in his only grass court game before Wimbledon to Jordan Thompson at Eastbourne, there was an air of uncertainty over the world No.1.

Host John Dickerson asked the Arizona senator to briefly comment on what’s going to happen to the troubled health care bill. Obamacare covers some 20 million Americans.

“It was probably one of my best starts, maybe even if it was risky”.

Everything seemed to be go according to the script for the home team when the All Blacks convincingly won the first test 30-15, but the Lions outscored New Zealand two tries to nil to win the second test 24-21 and force a decider which ended in a thrilling but also anticlimactic...

While it seems odd for one of the world’s biggest sports events to take a day off in the middle of competition, there is a good rationale for the schedule and a reward for the restraint.