BAD news for the remainder of the field in the ladies singles.

Serena Williams just got serious.

The bill for the last eight was topped yesterday by the four-time champion's meeting with Petra Kvitova, last year's winner, but when the 30-year-old from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is on this kind of form her opponent is usually rendered something of an irrelevance.

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