Sisters target all-Williams final

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Serena has not dropped a set yet at Wimbledon

By Tom Fordyce BBC Sport at Wimbledon

Venus and Serena Williams go into Thursday's Wimbledon semi-finals as red-hot favourites to progress to a Centre Court final on Saturday.

Second seed Serena faces Elena Dementieva at 1300 BST before Venus plays world number one Dinara Safina.

Five-time champion Venus is yet to drop a set in this year's tournament, and has now won 32 sets in a row.

"Being in the semi-finals again is where I want to be," she said. "I would love it to be an all-Williams final."

Despite looking unbeatable on their way through the draw, Venus insisted that she and her sister did not see it that way.

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"I feel that Serena and I work real hard," she said. "That's the first point. And, second, if it was so easy, we'd win everything. But it's not that easy.

"We still, I think, are definitely the front-runners in tennis as far as being some of the best players out there. But if there were just two players, it would just be a final.

"There's got to be 128. So that's the way it's got to be. I look forward to the challenge of whoever's across the net."

Safina beat Venus in Rome, but despite that and her superior ranking will go into the showdown as the clear outsider.

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"This is definitely Venus's best surface - she loves playing here, but I have nothing to lose," said the Russian. "I want to go and play the way I can play.

"I know her weapons. I have my weapons too. I cannot have a slow start with her because here it's so fast. So I have to really go on court pumped from the first point."

Serena has beaten Dementieva five times in their eight meetings over the years. Like her sister she has yet to drop a set at Wimbledon, and she dismantled Victoria Azarenka 6-2 6-3 in the quarter-finals.

"I've played Elena a lot the past 12 months, so I definitely know her game," she said. "She gets a lot of balls back, and she's a power player.

"It will be a really good match-up to me. She's playing really well on the grass. She hasn't been stretched too much in any of her matches either, so she's kind of going undercover."

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The 28-year-old Dementieva, a semi-finalist here last year, refused to rule out her chances against the 2002 and 2003 champion.

"I'm just trying to play very aggressive and trying not to think a lot about what I have to do against this player or that player," she said.

"I just try to focus on my game. I know it surprised a lot of people that I'm still working hard and trying to improve my game but this is what is so interesting for me about tennis, that I'm still trying to learn a lot about my game. "

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