{"id":12165,"date":"2017-07-13T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/07\/13\/venus-williams-reaches-wimbledon-final-at-age-37\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:29:00","slug":"venus-williams-reaches-wimbledon-final-at-age-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/venus-williams-reaches-wimbledon-final-at-age-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams Reaches Wimbledon Final At Age 37"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Venus Williams returns to Britain’s Johanna Konta during her victory in a semifinal match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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It’s been eight years since Venus Williams won a Wimbledon singles title, but she’s now eyeing her sixth, after advancing to Saturday’s final. Williams, 37, beat hard-serving Johanna Konta, the world’s No. 7 player, on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Konta had seven aces in the semifinal match with Williams, but she also served up four double faults \u2014 including one that cost her a crucial game early in the second set. Williams won, 6-4, 6-2, despite hitting only one ace.<\/p>\n

“I had a lot of issues,” Williams said afterwards. “This year’s been amazing, in terms of my play \u2014 and playing well into the big events.”<\/p>\n

In addition to her resilient play this season, Williams has been in headlines because of her involvement in a Florida traffic accident<\/a> in early June that later resulted in a man’s death. Earlier at the Wimbledon tournament, Williams left a news conference after growing emotional when discussing the incident.<\/p>\n

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After Thursday’s win, Williams said she had also been thinking about her sister, Serena, who skipped this year’s Wimbledon because she’s in the final trimester of her pregnancy.<\/p>\n