British third seed Andy Murray excited the home crowd at Wimbledon on Wednesday as he beat Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero 7-5, 6-3, 6-2 to reach the tournament semi-finals. He faces Andy Roddick, winner of a 5-set tussle with Lleyton Hewitt.
Five-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer will face Germany's Tommy Haas in his 21st consecutive Grand Slam semi-final after an impressive 6-3, 7-5, 7-6 (7/3) victory over Croatian giant Ivo Karlovic.
Both the Williams sisters are through to the Wimbledon semis after outclassing their opponents in the quarter-finals. Venus (pictured) will face Dinara Safina for a place in the final, while Serena will play Elena Dementieva.
Defending champion Venus Williams sailed into the Wimbledon semi-finals on Tuesday after beating Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska. She will now face world number one Dinara Safina, who defeated Germany's Sabine Lisicki.
In a repeat of this year's French Open final, Roger Federer coolly resisted a Wimbledon heat wave to beat Sweden's Robin Soderling 6-4, 7-6, 7-6. Home favourite Andy Murray later overcame Stanislas Wawrinka in an epic, 4-hour battle.
Sisters Serena and Venus Williams have both made through to the Wimbledon quarter-finals. Serena beat Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 6-1 on Monday. The pair have already contested three Wimbledon finals.
Andy Murray, bidding to become Britain's first men's Wimbledon champion since Fred Perry before World War II, brushed past Serbia's Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 to face Switzerland's Stanilas Wawrinka for a place in the quarter-finals.
Roger Federer beat German Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-2, 6-7 (5/7), 6-1 in Wimbledon's third round Friday, and next faces Robin Soderling. Federer is bidding for a record-breaking 15th Grand Slam title and a sixth Wimbledon crown.
