Venus Williams beats Sharapova to reach Wimbledon Q/F

WIMBLEDON: Venus Williams dominated her fourth round match against Maria Sharapova on Wednesday, advancing to the Wimbledon quarterfinals with a 6 1, 6 3 win over the 2004 champion.

Despite wasting seven break points in the third game of the second set, three time champion Williams broke in the seventh and ninth games to advance at the All England Club.

Williams had 19 break points in the match, converting four of them. Sharapova failed to even earn a break point. In the quarterfinals, Williams will face 2004 U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.