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Seeded players roll in Guangzhou quarters

Fri, 09/18/2009 - 21:11 by Inderjit Singh

Guangzhou -- Third-seeded Peng Shuai was among four seeded players who posted straight-set wins Friday in the semifinals of the $200,000 Guangzhou Women's Open in China.

Peng, the highest-seeded player left in the hard-court tournament, breezed by Alexandra Panova 6-2, 6-3. Peng broke serve in half of Panova's service games and only faced one break-point situation, which she saved.

She goes into the tournament semifinals against fifth-seeded Shahar Peer, who was a 6-3, 6-1 winner over Yung-Jan Chan in her quarterfinal match behind five service breaks. Peer and Peng split their two previous matchups, which were both in 2006.

Safina, Venus advance at Cincy tournament

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 11:21 by preet_20

Cincinnati, Aug. 12: Dinara Safina bounced back after losing the first set Tuesday to beat Roberta Vinci at the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Cincinnati.

The top-ranked Russian, who was runner-up at the French and Australian Opens, beat her Italian opponent 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 in second-round play at the $2 million event.

Safina racked up 10 double faults in the match, which lasted nearly two hours.

Venus Williams of the United States also advanced Tuesday by dispatching Belarusian Olga Govortsova 6-2, 6-2.
French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova struggled against Czech Lucie Safarova but eventually prevailed 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (7-4).