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Zvonareva advances to Pattaya City semis

Sat, 02/13/2010 - 12:22 by Rakhi Kaptiyal

Pattaya City, Thailand) -- Top-seeded Vera Zvonareva, the defending champion, won her quarterfinal match Friday at the Pattaya Open tennis event in Pattaya City, Thailand.

She advanced to Saturday's semifinals with a 6-0, 7-6 (7-5) win over fifth-seeded Sybille Bammer of Austria and next plays fourth-seeded Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, a 7-6 (7-4), 6-1 winner over unseeded Tatjana Malek of Germany.

Also Friday, in a battle of non-seeds, Bulgaria's Sesil Karatantcheva topped Russia's Ekaterina Bychkova, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, while fan favorite Tamarine Tanasugarn, a native of Los Angeles whose family is from Thailand, trounced Russia's Anna Chakvetadze, 6-1, 6-1.

Saturday's semifinals pit Zvonareva against Shvedova and Tanasugarn against Karatantcheva.

Sunday's champion collects $37,000.

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