Once again, with Serena Williams out of the picture, the women’s bracket at a Grand Slam has taken some odd turns on its way to the semifinals.
Wimbledon 2017: Time, TV schedule, live streaming for Thursday’s matches
Venus Williams vs. Johanna Konta and Garbine Muguruza vs. Magdalena Rybarikova are the women’s semifinals for Wimbledon, and here’s how you can watch.
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That isn’t to say that Serena’s dominant play isn’t exciting, but Thursday features a set of semifinals including Venus Williams, Johanna Konta, Garbine Muguruza, and the unseeded Magdalena Rybarikova.
Thursday’s action will begin at 8 a.m. ET and will be broadcast by ESPN in the United States. Both semifinals will air, and that coverage should be wrapped up by the early afternoon. A live stream of ESPN’s coverage will be available at WatchESPN and via the ESPN app.
Muguruza made it to the final in 2015, and she took down the top-seeded Angelique Kerber in the fourth round. She faces the unseeded and unheralded Rybarikova, a woman she has played four times as a professional.
They have split those matches, with Rybarikova winning the last one, crucially, on the grass courts in Birmingham 2015. Muguruza last won on the hard courts of Indian Wells in 2013. That year, they played at the Australian Open, and Muguruza won a very intense three-setter, their first meeting, 4-6, 6-1, 14-12.
Williams, the 10th seed, and Konta, the sixth seed, have played five times in the past. They have met twice in 2017, first at the Miami Masters, where Konta won in straight sets. The second came at the Rome Masters, and Williams won that one in three sets.
Overall, Konta has won three of the five matches. They played at the 2016 Australian Open, and Konta won the match in straight sets. This is the first time they will play each other on grass courts as professionals.
Konta is coming off a win over Simona Halep in the quarterfinals. Halep was the second seed, and had made it to the finals of the French Open earlier in the year. Many picked Halep to win at Wimbledon, but Konta took care of that notion. The woman who beat Halep at Roland Garros was then-unseeded Jelena Ostapenko.
At Wimbledon, Ostapenko was the 13th seed, but she lost in the quarterfinals to Williams. Rybarikova made it through American Coco Vandeweghe in her quarterfinal matchup, while Muguruza downed Svetlana Kuznetsova after she took down Kerber.
Below is all the information you need to watch the action on Thursday.
How to watch Wimbledon
Date: Thursday, July 13
Location: The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, England
Time: 8 a.m. ET
TV: ESPN
Women’s Semifinals
No. 6 Johanna Konta vs. No. 10 Venus Williams
No. 14 Garbine Muguruza vs. Magdalena Rybarikova
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