MELBOURNE: Serena Williams brushed aside Britain’s Johanna Konta to set up an Australian Open semifinals with an emotional Mirjana Lucic-Baroni on Wednesday -- 19 years after they last met as fellow teenage prodigies.

The American great overcame a misfiring serve to halt Konta’s nine-match winning streak 6-2, 6-3, staying on course for a potential all-Williams finals with her sister Venus.

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