Acerena, that's how we can call Serena Williams from now on. In today's Wimbledon semifinal victory, the American fired 24 aces, the 24th in style, on the match point, that is actually 4×6 one whole set, bettering her personal best of 23 achieved only three rounds ago against Zheng Jie. Serena's total number of aces at Wimbledon 2012 up to the final is 85, while second-ranked in that department is quarterfinalist Sabine Lisicki with 35. Can Williams' serving impress you more? You bet she can! Today against world No.2 Victoria Azarenka, Williams hit those 24 aces without making a single double fault! I don't like using multiple exclamation marks, but I feel like using five at this point.

You remember that in our preview we mentioned that Azarenka's pre-semifinal stats were 9% better than Serena's on the net and 13% better on the receiving points won, but today the sixth-seeded Serena lifted up her level there as well, winning 71% to Azarenka's 73% on the net and 36% to Azarenka's 27% of the receiving points won. In winners to unforced errors differential Serena was brutally dominant, hitting 45 winners to Azarenka's 14, and 14 unforced errors to Azarenka's just 5 less. Final score: 6-3 7-6(6). Williams has now won her last eight matches against Top 2 players, in straight sets!

Moreover, the day before the semifinal, Acerena played two doubles matches alongside sister Venus, won them both to reach the quarterfinal, and today shortly after her win in singles, Acerena got back to the court and celebrated yet another victory with Venus, reaching the Wimbledon doubles semifinal where they will face top seeds Liezer Huber and Lisa Raymond. Every time the Williams sisters play doubles at Wimbledon, one of them wins the singles title. That tradition can very well be continued as Serena takes on first-time Grand Slam finalist Agnieszka Radwanska in the title match.

Actually, the third-seeded Radwanska was the only Top 15 player never to have been in a Grand Slam semifinal, but she cast that spell away at this Wimbledon and even reached the last match of the tournament in singles by eliminating Angelique Kerber 6-3 6-4. Hitting just six unforced errors in the entire match, Radwanska recovered from a 3-1 deficit in the first set to take five games in a row and win the set, while in the second set a sole break in the fifth game allowed Radwanska to establish herself as a victor over Kerber.

If Radwanska wins the final she will climb to No.1 in the WTA rankings for the first time. Given Serena's serving and experience, few of us believe that can happen, but who knows. Moreover, Radwanska was already the first Pole in the Open Era, male or female, to reach a Grand Slam semifinal, and now she is the first one in the final. (photos: © Neal Trousdale)

The first Wimbledon semifinal on Centre Court on Thursday will be between Agnieszka Radwanska and Angelique Kerber and you can read the preview of the match-up here. Now let's give the word to our guest poster Omair for his take on the semifinal between Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka.

Serena Williams has set her sights on her seventh Wimbledon final as she takes on Victoria Azarenka, while Azarenka has her sights set on her first Wimbledon final and the No.1 ranking from which she was dethroned by Maria Sharapova after Roland Garros. Azarenka needs to reach the final to secure the return to the top spot or Agnieszka Radwanska to fall short of winning her first Grand Slam.

Let's have a look at the performance of Serena and Azarenka so far at Wimbledon 2012.

* I have used the average aces, double faults, winners and unforced errors hit by the player per match.

Serena has been serving efficiently as evident from her serving stats. The major difference will be the second serve. We all know that Serena has been serving her way out of trouble. Azarenka has won only 46% of points played on her second serve, while Serena has 63%, a huge difference of 17%.

However, Azarenka might love to try Serena's skills on the net by moving her around as she has won 9% more points than Serena on the net. Serena has been better than Azarenka in almost every department. Read more »

Who will progress to the final of Wimbledon 2012? Let's get a closer look at the semifinal between third seed Agnieszka Radwanska and eighth seed Angelique Kerber and try to find out. The preview is courtesy of our loyal contributor Omair.

Third-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska has finally broken the Grand Slam quarterfinal spell and made her way into her very first major semifinal. The Pole's opponent in the semifinal, world No.8 Angelique Kerber, has also casted away some spells. Coming into this year's Wimbledon, she had won a total of two matches at the tournament in her four previous attempts, but now she finds herself in the semifinal, having won five straight matches.

With Radwanska and Kerber having never made a Grand Slam final, we are guaranteed to have one first time Slam finalist for the third consecutive Grand Slam (Australian Open: Victoria Azarenka, French Open: Sara Errani, Wimbledon: Radwanska or Kerber?). Also, Kerber is trying to become the first German woman to make it to the final of Wimbledon, since Steffi Graf lost the final to Lindsay Davenport in 1999.

Let us have a look at the performance of the players so far at Wimbledon 2012:

* I have used the average aces, double faults, winners and unforced errors hit by the player per match.

If we talk in terms of stats, Kerber and Radwanska are almost even in every department, with one major exception, the second serve department. Kerber has won 7% more points than Radwanska. Radwanska's serve has never been her weapon, but if she is to make her way past Kerber, she will have to make the best of her serve. They are parallel in their return games and their winners-unforced errors differential. Radwanska is somewhat better than Kerber at net as well and she would love to test her opponent's skill on the points played at net. Read more »

It didn't seem likely based on the first set and the beginning of the second, but Sabine Lisicki woke up all the lulled tennis fans who are watching Wimbledon at night to produce a thriller against Angelique Kerber and even though it was undecided until the very end, eventually it was the higher-ranked Kerber advancing to the semis, preventing Lisicki from reaching her second straight Wimbledon semifinal.

In the encounter of two Germans with Polish blood, the 15th-seeded Lisicki made a small revival from 4-1 down in the first set to 4-3 down, but Kerber quickly finished the set 6-3.

In the second set Kerber raced to a 3-0 lead and looked to be en route to a quick win, but again Lisicki returned, this time leveling at 3-3. Later on, the eighth-seeded Kerber earned two match points, but Lisicki fought them off in a fantastic game, putting the entire Twittersphere on her side, earned a tiebreak, saved the third match point during the tiebreak and won the set, inspiring people to praise the entertainment of women's tennis.

At 4-3 in the third set, Lisicki went 40-0 up on Kerber's serve and Kerber even helped her with a double fault. However, when Lisicki was serving for the match at 5-3, Kerber mirrored the situation from the previous game, earned 40-0 on Lisicki's serve and won that game to eventually close out 6-3 6-7(7) 7-5 on the fifth match point.

The smile from this photo is probably not on Lisicki's face right now as Kerber is joining Serena Williams in the semis and will next play either Agnieszka Radwanska or Maria Kirilenko. (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Serena Williams aced a 6-2 7-5 victory over defending Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova to reach her eighth career Wimbledon semifinal in a bid to win her fifth title at the Grand Slam. Williams' last major title came at Wimbledon 2010 and en route to that one she defeated Kvitova in the semis, but the Czech was ranked 62nd then, while now she's No.4 and a former No.2.

In today's quarterfinal, Williams often dictated points, especially with her serve and service return. Serving for the match, Williams blasted three aces and a service winner, thus collecting a total of 13 aces in the match and a Wimbledon 2012 leading total of 61 aces. Kvitova helped Williams by making four consecutive errors when serving at 5-5 30-0 in the second set to hand Williams a crucial break.

Serena's opponent in the semis will be the winner of the match between Victoria Azarenka and the only unseeded quarterfinalist Tamira Paszek.