Serena and Venus Williams closed in Tuesday on a fifth all-sister Wimbledon final while beaten quarter-finalist Dominika Cibulkova prepared to rush back to Slovakia to get ready for her wedding.
Six-time champion Serena reached her 10th semi-final at the All England Club with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Russia 21st seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
She goes on to face Russian world number 50 Elena Vesnina on Thursday for a place in the final.
Five-time champion Venus, seeded eight, enjoyed a 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 victory over Kazakhstan’s world number 96 Yaroslava Shvedova to reach her first Wimbledon semi-final in seven years.
The 36-year-old will now face German fourth seed and Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber who reached her second Wimbledon semi-final with a 7-5, 7-6 (7/2) win over Simona Halep, the fifth seed from Romania.

Vesnina made her first semi-final at a major, by seeing off bride-to-be Cibulkova, the Slovak 19th seed, 6-2, 6-2.
“They showed Venus’s score on court and I was like ‘yaaaay’. I want her to win so bad, but not in the final if I’m there,” said defending champion Serena, who took her Grand Slam match win record to 302 — four behind Martina Navratilova’s all-time mark.
It is the 11th time that the sisters have advanced to the semi-finals of the same Grand Slam event.
Serena took a 5-0 career lead over Russian 21st seed Pavlyuchenkova into Tuesday’s match, having not dropped a set to her opponent since their first meeting in 2010.
“It was good. I am excited to be able to win and get through, it felt really good,” said Serena, who is bidding to win a record-equalling Open era 22nd Grand Slam title.
On the potential of an all-Williams final, Serena refused to get too far ahead of herself even though she has a 4-0 winning record over Vesnina.
“We don’t really talk too much about it but we are playing doubles later so we are just happy to be in the semi-finals,” she said.
Venus is the oldest women’s semi-finalist since Martina Navratilova in 1994.
Venus, who won the last of her seven Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon in 2008, is back in the last-four of a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2010 US Open.
The eight-time Wimbledon finalist trails 3-2 in her five career meetings with 28-year-old Kerber, who won their only meeting on grass in the 2012 Olympics at Wimbledon.
Kerber on a misson…
The No.4 seed is yet to drop a set at The Championships 2016.#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/Py1uoUqFBK
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 5, 2016
“I love playing the game. When you are winning matches it makes it that much sweeter,” the German said.
You can’t always have these big moments. I guess if you are Serena Williams it happens a lot, but for Venus Williams this is an awesome day.
Kerber now has 33 match wins in 2016, joint-best with Cibulkova.
“I have had a great year so far. I think I am playing my best tennis. Hopefully I can play a few more matches here,” she said.
The 28-year-old Kerber, who also made the semi-finals in 2012, came out on top in a big-hitting battle with Halep, who was a semi-finalist in 2014.
One step closer… Thank you for your support! #Wimbledon #TeamAngie pic.twitter.com/JlpPgwhy3F
— Angelique Kerber (@AngeliqueKerber) July 5, 2016
Cibulkova heading for a wedding
Cibulkova is due to marry fiance Miso Navara in her hometown of Bratislava on Saturday — the same day as the women’s final — and the 27-year-old was willing to postpone the ceremony if she won her quarter-final.
But 29-year-old Vesnina took advantage of a distracted display from Cibulkova to become the fifth unseeded woman to reach the All England Club semi-finals since the Grand Slams switched to 32 seeds in 2001.