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Venus Williams advance to round 5 of the Wimbledon match after winning a easy stretch against Martina Navratilova.Five-time champion Venus Williams has reached the fourth round at Wimbledon, beating Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-0, 6-2 Friday. The 23rd-seeded Williams improved her record to 71-9 at the All England Club on Friday. Only Martina Navratilova (120), Chris Evert (96) and Steffi Graf (74) have more wins at Wimbleon than the American. If Venus will win this round 5 match had a chance to face her sister in the finals again. Williams last won the Wimbledon title in 2008, but she lost to sister Serena in the 2009 final. Tsvetana's first tournament of 2011 was in Moorilla Hobart International where she lost to Peng Shuai of China in first round. In the Australian Open Pironkova won her first round match in straight sets against French player Pauline Parmentier, but fell the in second round to Romanian Monica Niculescu. In the 2011 French Open Tsvetana was seeded 32nd. In the first round she defeated Australian wild card Casey Dellacqua with a score of 7-5 6-3. Tsvetana went on to lose to Gisela Dulko, the Argentine, in the second round. Pironkova entered Wimbledon as №32 seeded. She successfully won her first two matches without losing a set: the first against Camila Giorgi, who was ranked №169 and the second against Petra Martic, who was ranked №98. In the third round Tsvetana defeated world №3 and №2 seeded Vera Zvonareva with 6-2 and 6-3, thus avenging for her loss in the semifinals of the last year's Wimbledon.
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