Olympic champion Elena Dementieva reached the Wimbledon semi-finals for the second straight year with a crushing 6-2 6-2 victory over unseeded Italian Francesca Schiavone on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old Schiavone had never passed the third round here in eight previous visits and rarely looked like threatening the crisp-hitting of the fourth-seeded Dementieva.
The Russian broke serve three times in the opening set and Schiavone's resistance proved equally ineffective in the second.
Dementieva progressed when the Italian veteran slapped a backhand over the baseline after 66 minutes.
She will play second seed Serena Williams for a place in Saturday's final.
