Tennis - Australian Open - Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia - 24/1/17 Venus Williams of the U.S. hits a shot during her Women's singles quarter-final match against Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. REUTERS/Issei Kato
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Venus Williams continued her astonishing late-career revival by felling Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4 7-6(3) on Tuesday to reach her first Australian Open semi-final in 14 years and become the oldest woman to reach the last four at Melbourne Park in the professional era.
The quarter-final will hardly be remembered as a classic, with both Venus and the 24th-ranked Russian surrendering serve with alarming regularity despite perfect conditions for tennis at Rod Laver Arena.
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