(CNN) -- At times it was almost painful to watch. At one end of the court the world's No. 1 female tennis star playing well within herself; at the other her sister, a long way away from regaining that form and status. 

"Venus has had a great week, and honestly, if she hadn't had to play so many matches, it would have been a much tougher match," Serena Williams said after comfortably beating her older sibling on Saturday to reach the final of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston. 

The 31-year-old was slightly overstating the rigors of the competition in South Carolina, a tournament that heralded the formation of the women's tour back in 1973 but has this week attracted just two of the world's top-10 players. 

Serena is one, and the other -- 10th-ranked Caroline Wozniacki -- crashed out in the quarterfinals on Friday against Swiss No. 63 Stefanie Vogele. 

Both Williams sisters won two matches on Friday to set up their first meeting since 2009, but it was defending champion Serena who looked the least affected as she won 6-1 6-2 in just 54 minutes. 

"She'll never admit it, but I don't think she was 100%," Serena said of her sister, who was diagnosed with a debilitating autoimmune disease before the 2011 U.S. Open -- a grand slam she has won twice, along with her five Wimbledons. 

"But you will never get that out of her. And quite frankly, three matches for her is much tougher than three matches for me. It's definitely not easy -- because I'm struggling, and I can't imagine what she must be feeling."  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who played the match in question?
2. What is her name?
3. Who was she competing against?
4. What's her name?
5. Where did this event take place?
6. What was the name of the event?
7. Who was the other high ranked player there?
8. What was her rank?
9. Did she win the event?
10. Who did she lose to?
11. Where was she from?
12. What does the one sibling have?
13. When did she learn this?
14. How many tournaments has she won?
15. Did the winner believe her competitor was at full strength?
16. Will the other ever say she was not at full strength?
Answer: 1. the world's No. 1 female tennis star
2. Serena Williams
3. her sister
4. Venus
5. Charleston
6. Family Circle Cup
7. Caroline Wozniacki
8. 10th
9. No
10. Stefanie Vogele
11. Sweden
12. a debilitating autoimmune disease
13. 2011
14. 7 total.
15. No
16. No

Ally was at home, sitting in her chair. She was drinking orange juice. Orange juice was her favorite drink, because she loved its sweet taste. 

Ally's sister was sitting on the carpet. She was drawing a pair of pink socks. Ally's sister loved the color pink, because she thought it was cute. 

Ally's brother was also sitting on the carpet. He was drinking coffee with lots of sugar in it. He loved sugar because it made him feel energetic. 

All of the sudden, there was a knock at the door. Ally's sister answered it. When she opened the door, she saw an alligator wearing a suit and tie! Ally's sister screamed, and closed the door. 

"Please," the alligator said, "Don't be afraid. I want to draw with you." 

Ally's sister opened the door, and the alligator came inside. He sat on the carpet, and started drawing his own pair of pink socks. Ally's sister sat down, and joined him. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who was at home ?
2. what was she doing ?
3. and drinking ?
4. what was the sister doing ?
5. drawing what ?
6. what is ally brother doing ?
7. and drinking what ?
8. who was at the door ?
9. who answered the door ?
10. did ally scream ?
11. why?
12. did the alligator want to draw with them ?
Answer: 1. Ally
2. sitting in her chair
3. yes
4. sitting on the carpet
5. a pair of socks
6. he was also sitting on the carpet
7. coffee
8. an alligator
9. Ally's sister
10. yes
11. because she saw an alligator in a suit and tie
12. yes

(CNN) -- Move over, Edward Cullen. 

Tell those bayou bloodsuckers from "True Blood" to step aside, too. 

More than 112 years after he first climbed out of the coffin, the world's most famous vampire is back -- and he's bloodier than ever. 

"Dracula the Un-Dead," released this month in the United States, is a sequel to Bram Stoker's 1897 classic written by Dacre Stoker, the original author's great-grandnephew. 

The book, co-written by Dracula historian Ian Holt, picks up 25 years after the Victorian-era monster is supposedly killed in the original and is based in part on 125 pages of handwritten notes that Bram Stoker left behind. 

But while many of the original characters are here -- troubled couple Jonathan and Mina Harker and vampire hunter Van Helsing among them -- the horror has gotten a 21st-century update. The sex and violence that Stoker deftly alluded to in the original are, at times, front and center in his descendant's sequel. 

"You've got to keep in mind the perspective," said Dacre Stoker, a native of Montreal, Quebec, now living in Aiken, South Carolina. "The degree of sex and violence he had, in this very stuffy and conservative Victorian society, was cutting edge at the time. Even the exposure of a woman's flesh, the piercing of the flesh, was a metaphor for the sex act." 

And with authors from Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris to Stephen King and Poppy Z. Brite having crafted their own, sometimes lurid, reworkings of the vampire legend, Stoker said he knew that the new book couldn't just be a straight continuation of the first.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who's this about?
2. What movie about him will be released shortly?
3. Who wrote it?
4. Who's he related to?
5. How?
6. Is this film the first in a series?
7. To what film?
8. Did any characters from that film come out in the new one?
9. Name one.
10. Name another.
11. Were those two related?
Answer:
1. Dracula
2. Dracula the Un-Dead
3. Dacre Stoker
4. The original author.
5. He's a great-grandnephew.
6. It's a sequel
7. Bram Stoker's 1897 classic
8. Yes
9. Jonathan Harker
10. Mina Harker
11. They are a couple.