Until this season, if Aryna Sabalenka was tennis royalty, it was only because she was "The Queen of Double-Faults", a title she gave herself.

Then she won her first Grand Slam title at January's Australian Open and now, after defeating Madison Keys, the No.2 seed is through to the last four at Wimbledon, setting up the possibility that she's about to become a grass court queen.

When Sabalenka's serve is misbehaving – and last season she produced a Tour-leading 440 double-faults – her whole game can look shaky. But when her serve is working well, it's always going to be extremely challenging for opponents to dislodge her from the lawns.

Serving at up to 119mph, winning three quarters of her first serve points and producing just a couple of double-faults, Sabalenka advanced 6-2, 6-4. "Since I was a little girl, I've dreamed of winning Wimbledon," she said.

Along with a mighty serve, Sabalenka also puts plenty of oomph into her groundstrokes.

It's so passé to be bringing up the noise that a player makes at Wimbledon – long gone are the days when 'gruntometers' were regularly brought into the Grounds.

But it's still worth noting that no one sitting inside No.1 Court would have been in any doubt about the effort that Sabalenka was making to go all-out on the grass.

It's not as if Keys plays soft, delicate tennis on the lawns – the American was also clumping the ball out there.

Going into this quarter-final, Keys was undefeated in nine matches on English lawns, having won a title in Eastbourne the week before Wimbledon.

Even with her power, momentum and form, she was unable to deal with Sabalenka's strength of shot.

If anything and anyone was holding up Sabalenka's progression in the opening set it was a few spots of rain that, weirdly, were dripping down from mostly sunny skies.

After a short delay at 5-1, with the umpire brushing the grass with her hand to check for moisture, they continued and soon Sabalenka was a set up.

Trailing 2-4 in the second set, Sabalenka won the next four games to complete her victory.

After a wretched experience in Paris, where Sabalenka had a match point before losing her Roland-Garros semi-final with Czech Karolina Muchova, she has done well to reset and go again at the Grand Slams.

This is the second time she has reached the last four at the All England Club, but she is yet to make the final.

Sabalenka next plays defending champion Elena Rybakina or last year's runner-up Ons Jabeur.

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