= “articlemeta-left”> Updated September 9 2015 04:26 clock

New York (AFP) – Serena Williams is a three-set victory in Sister Act only two victories from the historical calendar Grand Slam away. The top-seeded American went through an emotional 6: 2, 1: 6, 6: 3 against her sister Venus Williams (no. 23) the semi-finals of the US Open in New York.

At the sold out with 23,771 spectators Arthur Ashe Stadium, the younger of the two Williams sisters converted the first match point after 1:38 hours with her twelfth ace and clenched his fists. “This is a really great moment, but it was not easy for both of us,” Serena Williams said: “Venus is for me the best opponent out there and she is the best person that I know..”

At net the superstars fell after gutklassigen game in his arms. . Above all, the 21-time Major winner had previously shown more emotion than usual

For Serena Williams, it was the 16th victory in a total of 27 Family Feud – and the seventh success in the past eight games. In a Grand Slam tournament Venus had been able to last win in the Wimbledon final in 2008 against the industry leader.

The 33-year-old Serena Williams can with her seventh US Open triumph, the first player after Steffi Graf in 1988 be that the major championships in Melbourne, Paris and New York Wimbledon wins in a calendar year.

In the semifinals, Williams meets on Thursday to Roberta Vinci. With 32 years the world ranking 43rd from Italy by 6: 3, 5: 7, 6:. 4 against the also unseeded Kristina Mladenovic (France) for the first time in a major semi-final

Serena Williams started the night session on the greatest of all tennis highly concentrated -Bühnen and let to a single break point against her two year older sister in the first sentence. But she took Venus twice the Service from and took 33 minutes to the first round.

As a result, however, the favorite was nervous. Venus Williams dominated the episode the rally and won deserved sentence two

The preliminary decision fell when Serena her sister to 2. 0 break-danced and afterwards nothing was burning