
Venus Williams beat Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 on Thursday to move on to the semifinals of the Pan Pacific Open. Williams, playing in the Tokyo tournament for the first time since 2009, broke Bouchard with a forehand down the line to go up 5-2 in the third set and held on to win the match that lasted 3 hours, 2 minutes at Ariake Colosseum.
Williams will face either Svetlana Kuznetsova or Petra Kvitova in the semis. Kvitova...