& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Venus ends Tamarine run

AFP, London
Four-time champion
Williams cruised closer to a seventh Wimbledon
Tuesday as she set up a last four showdown with brittle Russian Elena Dementieva.
Williams, the seventh seed, brushed aside Thai veteran Tamarine Tanasugam 6-4, 6-3 and is now just one victory away from an All England Club final and the possibility of a third title showdown with sister Serena.
Tamarine, ranked 60 in the world, was the first Thai to reach a Grand Slam quarterfinal but the 31-year-old, who considered quitting last year, was left to regret only converting one of her 10 break points.
Dementieva reached her first Wimbledon semifinal with a 6-1,6-7 (6/8), 6-3 over Nadia Petrova in a rollercoaster tie where searing temperatures sent both Russians into meltdown on Centre Court.
It was a hard-earned victory for the 26-year-old fifth seed, the highest ranked player left in the tournament after the top four seeds had been culled. Dementieva had led by a set and 5-1 and threw away two match points in a virtual carbon copy of her collapse against Dinara Safina in the French Open quarterfinals.
American sixth seed Serena Williams reached the Wimbledon semifinals with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska.
Serena, the 2002 and 2003 champion, will face China's Zheng Jie for a place in the final.
Zheng reached last four with a 6-2,5-7,6-1 win over Czech 18th seed NicoleVaidisova.
Former world number three Petrova, who made the last eight here in 2005, has been dogged by a brittle temperament throughout her career and that fraility returned to haunt her.
Trailing 2-1 in the first set, she was called for a borderline footfault which, in turn, sparked two back-to-back double faults which handed the first break to Dementieva.
The fifth seed reeled off the next six games on her way to taking the first set and creating a 2-0 cushion in the second before Petrova stopped the rot.
As the mercury touched 28 degrees, Dementieva wilted.
A 5-1 lead drifted away as Petrova reeled off five successive games to take the set into a tiebreak.
Dementieva then squandered two match points before Petrova pounced to level the tie with a cool volley.
Dementieva stormed into a 4-0 lead in the decider and held her nerve after dropping serve again in the fifth game to eventually wrap up victory.