Four-time champion Venus Williams swept into the quarter-finals at Wimbledon on Monday with an impressive display of power tennis against Russian teenager Alisa Kleybanova.

Williams, firmly on course to meet her sister Serena in the final, won 6-3 6-4 on Court Two.

The number seven seed, often a slow starter, was razor-sharp from the beginning against the 18-year-old, who was broken in the eighth game when she double-faulted three times.

In the second set, Kleybanova survived two match points at 5-2 and broke Williams’ serve before she finally succumbed 6-4 to the title holder.