Top seed and defending champion Venus Williams registered her 18th consecutive singles victory at Wimbledon, routing fellow-American Lisa Raymond 6-1, 6-2 in only 47 minutes to move into a quarter-final meeting with the unseeded Russian, Elena Likhovtseva.

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