Spain’s Garbine Muguruza returns to Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova en route to her 6-3 Henry Ellenson Jersey , 6-4 Wimbledon quarterfinal victory at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, yesterday. — Reuters PLAYING at Wimbledon for the 20th time, Venus Williams is in the semifinals for the 10th time.
The five-time champion at the All England Club advanced to the last four for the second year in a row by beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 7-5 yesterday under a closed roof on Centre Court.
Williams Stanley Johnson Jersey , who is 37 years old, made her Wimbledon debut a few months before Ostapenko was born. She last won the title in 2008, but reached the semifinals last year and the Australian Open final this year.
Williams became the oldest Wimbledon semifinalist for 23 years after Martina Navratilova made it thus far in 1994.
Williams will next face either second-seeded Simona Halep or Johanna Konta tomorrow. In the other women’s semifinal match, Garbine Muguruza will play either CoCo Vandeweghe or Magdalena Rybarikova. Muguruza beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 6-4 on No. 1 Court.
Konta was playing Halep on Centre Court next. On Court No. 1 Luke Kennard Jersey , Rybarikova was taking on Vandeweghe.
On the men’s side, Novak Djokovic advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Adrian Mannarino 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-4. That match, the first to be played under the roof on Centre Court at this year’s tournament Rick Mahorn Jersey , was postponed from Monday.
Williams went up a break early in both sets against Ostapenko, the French Open champion. But the 20-year-old Latvian broke back in the second set and it went to 5-5. A few unforced errors later, though, and Williams broke again for a 6-5 lead before serving out the match.
Williams ended up with eight aces and only 13 winners. Ostapenko had one ace and 20 winners.
In the first match, Djokovic was up a break in the third set when he asked for a medical timeout and a trainer examined and stretched his right shoulder. The second-seeded Serb appeared to grimace in pain a couple of times as his shoulder was being checked.
“It’s been something that I’ve been dragging back and forth for a while now Grant Long Jersey ,” Djokovic said. “But I’m still managing to play, which is the most important thing.”
Djokovic was broken only once, in the second set. But the 12-time major champion, who won the Wimbledon title in 2011, ‘14 and ‘15 Jerry Stackhouse Jersey , broke Mannarino early in the third and advanced to the quarterfinals at the All England Club for the ninth time.
Mannarino has never before reached the quarterfinals at any of the four majors.
Djokovic will face 2010 Wimbledon finalist Tomas Berdych, a man he has beaten 25 times in 27 matches, today.
The men traditionally have Tuesday off, but Rafael Nadal’s five-set loss to Gilles Muller on Monday forced Djokovic’s match to be pushed back a day.
UNITED NATIONS, July 8 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned the killing of five police officers during a rally in Dallas in U.S. state of Texas on Thursday, saying that "There is no justification for such violence."
The secretary-general extended his condolences to the families and colleagues of the victims, as well as the Police Department of Dallas, Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, told reporters here.
"Those responsible compounded the suffering that many in the United States feel following the killing of two African-American men over two days," Haq said. "Those killings must be the subject of a thorough and impartial investigation.."
"They once again put the focus on the need to address discrimination, including racial disparities in law enforcement, in a comprehensive manner," he said.
Five police officers were killed and seven others injured as two snipers opened fire during a protest against officer-involved shootings across the United States on Thursday night.
The gunfire occurred about 8:45 p.m. local time Thursday (0145 GMT Friday) as protesters were marching along a street in downtown Dallas, a city in the northern part of the U.S. state of Texas, about 0.8 km from City Hall, when the shooting broke out and the crowd scattered.
One of the suspects told a hostage negotiator that he was upset about the recent police shootings of two black men and that he wanted to kill white people, especially police officers, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said at a news conference Friday morning.
The suspect, who was killed by police when they detonated a bomb delivered by robot, was identified today as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, media reports said. Enditem
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