Serena Williams serves as part of the Wimbledon finals

Serena Williams serves as part of the Wimbledon finals

Wimbledon, England – Serena Williams got his first ace in his first Wimbledon semifinal match Thursday against the second seeded Victoria Azarenka

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At that time, Williams’ 6 -3, 7-6 (6), Azarenka win was over, Williams had served 24 aces. It broke the Wimbledon record that Williams had made last week against Zheng Jie in one. And Williams played three sets against Zheng.

“It’s the best he has ever had, and the best I’ve ever seen,” Richard Williams, Serena’s father and coach, said his ability to serve.

Williams’ win 1 hour 36 minutes, sent him to his seventh Wimbledon final, and his eighteenth major tournament final. On Saturday he will play for the first time Wimbledon finalist and third-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska from Poland, who beat eighth seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-3, 6-4.

Friday starting at 5 am PDT and live TV this year, in all time zones from ESPN is a men’s semi-finals – top-seeded and defending champion Novak Djokovic against six times W imbledon champion and third-seeded Roger Federer, after which the fourth seeded Andy Murray against seededJo fifth-Wilfried Tsonga.

Federer and Djokovic have played each other 26 times (Federer leads, 14-12), but this is the first meeting of the grass, and when the 30-year-old Federer pulls off upset, he returns the No. 1 ranking in the world.

“It is interesting that this is our first grass-court match,” Federer said. “I look forward to it.”

If Federer had won his seventh Wimbledon, he would be Pete Sampras and Willie Renshaw for most men’s singles titles.

Djokovic has won four in the last six Grand Slam tournaments, and 25-year-old Serbian is 43-2 four majors the past two years.

“Roger has a lot of respect from me, all the players,” Djokovic said. “But we are all competitors. We are opposed to. I do not think his success, when I’m on the right track.”

Williams was so dominant as Djokov ic has been the past two years, when he won his last major title, his 13th, here two years ago.

Soon after profit, Williams suffered a foot injury that required surgery, and during his recovery, he was a pulmonary embolism. Williams was more than a year, and tennis has not won a major since his return. He lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon last year’s U.S. Open finalist in 2011, the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open and the first round of French Open in May.

But Lindsay Davenport, who won Wimbledon in 1999, and was considered one of the best servers of his generation, said it would be almost impossible to win a woman serving 24 aces and a grass-court match.

And Davenport and Martina Hingis, who won seven majors, such as the Wimbledon title, think of one thing: Radwanska Williams chances of winning? “Not a lot.”

Williams, 30, said she was unaware during the game that he dominated his service games. “I thought,” Gosh, I need to get more first serves in, “It does not really feel that I hit 24 aces all.”

But he is happy when he does its job now. During his career, Williams has dabbled clothing design and acting. He has had romantic relationships with rap stars. Now, he said, it’s just tennis.

“I’m so happy to play. I am so happy to be here,” he said. “I think this is where I belong. Maybe I am not a relationship. Maybe I do not belong elsewhere. But I know that I belong to a tennis court.”

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