Serena battles Kerber in Wimbledon final
Holder Serena Williams will play Angelique Kerber in the women’s singles final at Wimbledon on Saturday.
Six-time champion Serena, 34, thrashed Russia’s Elena Vesnina 6-2 6-0 in 48 minutes to reach her ninth final.
Fourth-seeded German Kerber, 28, prevented a fifth all-Williams final by beating Serena’s older sister Venus, who looked out of sorts, 6-4 6-4.
In January, the left-handed Kerber beat Serena in the Australian Open final for her first Grand Slam title.
Serena, who is bidding to match Steffi Graf’s open era record of 22 Grand Slam singles title, simply had too much firepower for her unseeded opponent.
Vesnina, a two-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, looked overawed from the outset, losing the first four games.
The world number 50, playing in her first Grand Slam singles semi-final, rallied but still lost the first setin 28 minutes.
Things got even worse for Vesnina in the second set, the 29-year-old simply unable to deal with the Serena serve, which yielded only three points in the match.
