NEW YORK: Venus Williams advanced to the quarter-finals of the Family Circle Cup Tennis Tournament in Charleston, South Carolina on Thursday with a routine 6-4, 6-1 win over Switzerland’s Marie-Gayanay Mikaelian.
The fourth-seeded Williams, the highest ranked player left in the tournament after the withdrawal of the top three seeds, wasted little time asserting her authority against the world number 84 to set up a last-eight clash against Vera Zvonereva.
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