Olympic semi-finals after the Wimbledon champion continued her
relentless march towards a first singles gold medal on Thursday.
Serena, a two-time doubles gold medalist with Sister Venus, looks in
medal-winning form after crushing Danish eighth seed Caroline
Wozniacki 6-0, 6-3 in the quarter-finals.
The American fourth seed claimed her magnificent 6-1, 6-0 demolition
of Vera Zvonareva in the previous round of the Games topped any of her
performances en route to her fifth Wimbledon title last month.
Ominously for Australian Open champion Azarenka, the 14-time Grand
Slam winner was just as dominant against former world number one
Wozniacki.
Serena has made it her goal to become just the second woman after
German legend Steffi Graf to complete the Golden Slam of all four
major titles and Olympic singles gold and few would bet against her
achieving that target.
"I love playing Victoria. I have nothing to lose, she is world number
one," said Serena, who defeated Azarenka in the Wimbledon semi-finals
last month.
"That's what I love; playing when I have nothing to lose so there is
no pressure. It's fun. No matter what happens I am in a medal round
now so I'm excited."
Azarenka's progress to the last four was more painstaking as the
Belarusian clinched a hard-fought 6-4, 7-5 victory against German
seventh seed Angelique Kerber.
Belarus's Azarenka took one hour and 46 minutes to beat Kerber under
the Center Court roof and, with Serena up next, it was hardly
surprising to hear she hasn't started dreaming of gold medal glory
just yet.
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