WIMBLEDON
Date: 22 June - 5 July
Coverage: BBC One, BBC Two, BBC HD, Red Button, website streaming (UK only) and text commentary, 5 Live, 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC iPlayer
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Defending champion Venus Williams eased into the Wimbledon quarter-finals after a tearful Ana Ivanovic retired through injury during their fourth-round match.
Williams, 29, was leading 6-1 1-0 when Ivanovic bowed out with a groin problem after lengthy treatment on Court One.
The American third seed will now play Agnieszka Radwanska, who beat 17-year-old qualifier Melanie Oudin 6-4 7-5.
Fourth seed Elena Dementieva was a 6-1 6-3 winner against fellow Russian Elena Vesnina at a scorching SW19.
Williams looked well on course for victory before Ivanovic succumbed to injury and will be confident of beating Radwanska and progressing to the last four.
She powered through the opening set and has now won 30 consecutive sets at Wimbledon, a run that dates back to her third-round match against Akiko Morigami in 2007.
Ivanovic began well, forcing three break points in the opening game, but Williams served her way out of trouble and from then on it was one-way traffic.
The five-time champion's phenomenal power helped her to two consecutive breaks and a 5-0 lead before Ivanovic, who has been in resurgent form at the All England Club, finally held serve.
It was merely delaying the inevitable, however, as Williams easily wrapped up the set, and owing to the misfortune of her opponent she soon had the match in the bag.
Ivanovic was battling to hold her serve in the first game of the second set when she called the trainer.
The 21-year-old Serb, seeded number 13, had her left thigh taped up but was clearly hampered and, although she went on to win the game, she retired in at the change of ends.
Dementieva attacked from the outset against 22-year-old Vesnina and raced into a 5-0 lead before serving out the set for the loss of only one game.
Vesnina, who had never previously reached the fourth round, rallied at the start of the second set but was broken at 2-2 and then again at 5-3 as Dementieva wrapped up a 69-minute victory.
The 27-year-old, a semi-finalist in 2008, will meet Virginie Razzano or Francesca Schiavone for a place in the last four.
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