Venus Williams vs Elena Dementieva Wimbledon 2008: the women’s semifinals serve off early Thursday morning around 7 am ET on ESPN2/HD from London. For the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, they will like nothing more than to have a repeat from 2002 and 2003 “family” finals on Saturday June 5th, 2008. SportsBook.com has Venus Williams a -400 betting odds favorite vs. Elena Dementieva +280.  

The women, who stand in the way of an all-American meeting between the Williams sisters at the All England Club, have just one last chance at upsetting them.

4-time winner and defending champion Venus Williams, will be taking on the tough Russian, Elena Demantieva.

For the seasoned veteran, 26-year-old Demantieva, Thursday’s semifinals match with Venus will mark her first in over a decade of Wimbledons. Demantieva has competed a total of 39 times in a Grand Slam (including Wimbledon), but has yet to win 1.

Her biggest accomplishments as far as majors are concern have been: 2 semifinals, and 1 finals appearance at the U.S. Open, and reaching the finals at the French Open Roland Garros in 2004.

So what are the chances Demantieva upsets Venus Thursday? Well their head-to-head history says it all.

Demantieva’s difficulties against Venus: only two of their previous seven matches have resulted in a Russian win. Whereas four of the five Williams wins have come in straight sets.       

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