Williams reaches semi-finals at Amelia Island

Top-seed Venus Williams reached the Bausch & Lomb Championships semi-finals with a 6-3 6-1 win over Paola Suarez of Argentina…

Top-seed Venus Williams reached the Bausch & Lomb Championships semi-finals with a 6-3 6-1 win over Paola Suarez of Argentina last night.

Rain delayed the start of play for six hours and the remaining quarter-finals will not be completed until this morning.

Williams dominated Suarez in their one-hour match, never allowing the Argentine to break her serve.

The other quarter-finals see second-seed Justine Henin play Silvia Farina Elia of Italy and third-seed Jelena Dokic take on 10th-seed Elena Dementieva of Russia.

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Fifth-seed Sandrine Testud of France plays Anne Kremer of Luxembourg in the last quarter-final.

The two semi-finals will be played later today - after the three quarter-finals.

Williams awaits the victor of the Testud-Kremer match.