In a match, the Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams registered a win over the Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the women's singles event at the Flushing Meadows on Wednesday.

With this win, the player booked her place in the semi-finals of the US Open. She beat her comfortably by 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(2) in a quarter-final encounter that lasted two hours and 35 minutes at the Arthur Ashe Stadium.

With the win, Venus is through to her third Grand Slam semi-finals of the year and first US Open last-four since 2010. In the next match, she is going to face  American Sloane Stephens.

Rafael Nadal will also aim to book his place in the last-four of the US Open when he takes on Russia's Andrey Rublev in his men's singles quarter-finals event.

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