Venus to meet second seed Jankovic in Family Circle semis

CHARLESTON, South Carolina, Apr 14 (Reuters) Unseeded Venus Williams marched into the Family Circle Cup semi-finals by beating Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-4 7-5.

The American next meets second-seede d Serb Jelena Jankovic, who cruised to a 6-2 6-0 victory over Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik.

''We have both played well to get to the semis so I'm looking forward to playing the same kind of tennis, aggressive but with patience,'' Williams told reporters yesterday.

Medina Garrigues had high hopes of staging a fightback when she led 3-0 in the second set but the world number 29 had other ideas.

''I just felt like 'I'm not losing this set' and I said 'Come on V, get on with it','' said Williams.

The two women have not met since Jankovic's upset win over Williams in the third round at Wimbledon last year.

''I didn't expect to win so easy as I did today because we have had some tough matches,'' said world number nine Jankovic. ''I stayed focused and I did well.'' Ninth seed Vera Zvonareva also progressed with a 6-1 7-5 win over unseeded Dutch player Michaella Krajicek.

The Russian next meets fellow countrywoman Dinara Safina or France's Tatiana Golovin.

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