Wimbledon 2016 Women's Semifinals: TV Schedule, Start Time, Live-Stream Info

The dream Williams sister final is one step closer to becoming a reality. 

Venus and Serena were both victorious in their quarterfinal matches Tuesday, leaving them one match away from perhaps their final clash for a Grand Slam title.

Venus will be playing in her first major championship semifinal since 2010 after earning a straight-sets win over unseeded Yaroslava Shvedova. After the two battled through a hard-fought first set that featured 10 break-point chances, 33 unforced errors (24 from Shvedova) and a number of critical points that reshaped the match, Venus caught fire in a nearly flawless second.

Date	Time	Matchup	Network	Stream
Thursday, July 7	Not before 1 p.m. local time	Serena Williams vs. Dominika Cibulkova	ESPN	WatchESPN
Thursday, July 7	Not before 1 p.m. local time	Venus Williams vs. Angelique Kerber	ESPN	WatchESPN

The five-time Wimbledon champion made just three unforced errors in the close-out set and took advantage of her opponent's over-aggression to pull out the win. Venus spoke about her return to the semifinals, per Greg Garber of ESPN.com:

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Yeah, semifinals feels good. But it doesn't feel foreign at all, let's put it that way. ... Yeah, the road was six years. They go by fast thankfully. But I've been blessed, been really blessed, to have an opportunity to be here, have had an opportunity in the past to do this. I don't have any regrets about anything that's taken place in between. It's been a journey, but it's made me stronger.

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Writer Alexander Goot commented on Venus' run:

Serena, as she's wont to be, was much more steadfast in her 6-4, 6-4 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. The match took just one hour and 12 minutes, as both women spent the match dominating with their serve. Serena smashed 11 aces, won 90 percent of her first-serve points and did not face a single break point. The only two break points of the match went to the world No. 1, who converted on both of her tries.

Pavlyuchenkova committed only nine unforced errors—10 fewer than Serena—but was unable to overcome the generational power on the other side of the net.

“I’m excited to have been able to win that one and get through. It feels really good,” Serena, yet to win a major in 2016, said after the match, per Owen Wilson of the Guardian. “One thing I’ve learned this year is just to focus on the match.”

Thankfully, no one was threatened with a lawsuit this time, either. 

The sisters enter their semifinal matchups against opponents with wildly different resumes. Serena has, on paper, her easiest opponent since Round 2. Elena Vesnina entered the All-England Club ranked No. 50 in the world and without a singles quarterfinal appearance on her resume. She hadn't made it to the fourth round in a Slam since the 2013 Australian Open.

Yet here she is in the Wimbledon semifinal after a highly favorable draw. Vesnina did not play an opponent seeded higher than No. 32 Andrea Petkovic until she met Dominika Cibulkova in the quarters. Belinda Bencic, Petra Kvitova and Barbora Strycova all bowed out early on her side of the bracket as she breezed through against unseeded and qualifier opponents.

Give credit where it's due, though: Vesnina was sensational Tuesday. She earned a 6-2, 6-2 win over Cibulkova with ease, closing out the 19th-seeded Slovak in an hour and 16 minutes. She did not face a single break point and likely would have won sooner had she not needed 13 points to get her four breaks.

Angelique Kerber presents a far more formidable challenge to Venus. The Australian Open champ continued the best year of her career Tuesday with a straight-sets win over Simona Halep to make her second career Wimbledon semifinal. Kerber's road was paved easily before the showdown with Halep, as she avoided playing a single seeded opponent until the quarters.

Taking an hour-and-a-half to defeat the No. 5 seed, Kerber struggled with her serve throughout. The two traded a total of 13 breaks over two sets; there were actually more breaks than holds overall.

Lindsay Gibbs of Think Progress has been impressed with Kerber:

"I'm feeling really good, I'm trying to focus on my game," Kerber said, per Linda Pierce of the Sydney Morning Herald. "Just enjoying every time and and every day here and so happy to be in the semis right now."

Kerber owns a 3-2 overall record against Venus, but the two have not played since the 2014 Canadian Masters. 

Still, already the oldest Wimbledon semifinalist in more than two decades, Venus looks determined to smash the record for oldest Slam champion in history. Which, of course, was set by her sister one year ago in this very event.