Hi I'm Layton Huet and you are listening to the tennis podcast.

Well hello welcome to the tennis podcast on women's semi-final day. We now know who is going to

be part of finals day because moments ago Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharpova in straight

sets and Garbena Mugaruta is going to be her opponent because she came through a three-set

hustle against Ignesca Radbanska to reach her first grand slam final. My name is David Law,

part of the BBC Radio 5 live commentary team. I'm alongside Catherine Whitaker from Live at Wimbledon

and Simon Briggs, the Telegraph tennis correspondent and we are the tennis podcast brought to you in

association with the Telegraph and supported by BNP Pabar, the bank for a changing world.

And Simon that was pretty regulation stuff wasn't it from Serena Williams exactly what we would have

expected I think. Did Sharpova touch the ball in the final game? I think there were three or four races

in it, very similar to the way she closed out against Azarenka. It's amazing that mental strength

that she has when the finish line is within reach. We were talking yesterday or the day before about

Serena having that advantage on serve over Sharpova which is a factor in every match they play but

if they're going to play at Wimbledon the serve is always bigger here. The margin of victory seemed

that little bit bigger. It was never that close or exciting I guess. Now I suppose we'd better talk

to Catherine Whitaker quite quickly here because apparently she's got to get off to live at Wimbledon

to do some more broadcasting but Catherine you've managed to squeeze us in. Yeah bigger and better

places to be David that's how I roll now. Oh steady honestly goodness me. Anyway the first match

today, Garbin and Mugaruta, she was fantastic wasn't she for a set in a bit. I thought she was

going to thrash Radvanska in straight sets. Yeah it looked very much like she was just going to blast

Radvanska off the course the court and I think experience for Radvanska allowed her to hang in there

and get that second set but Mugaruta was just better. She was just a better player today and I

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