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Ladies’ quarter-finals took centre stage on Tuesday and like so often in the past, one family dominated the headlines.
Six-time champion Serena Williams and five-time champion Venus Williams both won in straight sets over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Yaroslava Shvedova respectively - which means the siblings could still face one another in Saturday's final.
Serena will play surprise semi-finalist Elena Vesnina on Thursday after the Russian moved into her first Grand Slam singles semi-final by crushing Dominika Cibulkova for the loss of just four games.
In the bottom half, Venus has a German standing in her way after Angelique Kerber continued her impressive passage through the draw.
The Australian Open champion looked rock solid during another straight-sets win, this time over Simona Halep. Kerber is the only woman into the last four without dropping a set during the 2016 Championships.
Earlier, the last spot in the men's quarter-finals was filled when former finalist Tomas Berdych got past fellow Czech Jiri Vesely in five sets, 6-3 in the decider. The two men had been stopped at two sets all late on Monday night. Berdych faces Lucas Pouille on Wednesday.
Day 8 in numbers
- Venus and Serena are both through to the Wimbledon semi-finals for the first time since 2009
- Serena moved to 84 Wimbledon singles wins on Tuesday, which sees her third in the women’s Open era standings behind Martina Navratilova (120) and Chris Evert (96)
- Serena is in her 300th non-consecutive week at No.1. She sits third in the all-time list behind Steffi Graf (377) and Navratilova (332)
- Venus is through to her first Grand Slam semi-final since the 2010 US Open
- At 36, Venus is the oldest player to reach a Grand Slam singles semi-final since Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1994
- Vesnina is only the fifth unseeded player to reach the Wimbledon ladies’ semi-finals since 2001, when 32 seeds were first introduced to the singles draws
- World No.96 Shvedova was the fifth-lowest ranked player ever to reach the last eight of Wimbledon's ladies’ singles (Lucic-Baroni (134), Zheng (133), Dokic and Beltrame (129), and Gigi Fernandez (99))
- Kerber can no longer take over as world No.1 after Wimbledon – she needed Serena to lose in the quarter-finals for that to be a mathematical possibility
- Shvedova hit the fastest second serve of the ladies' singles on Tuesday at 106mph
