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Gaudio in last four

KITZBUEHEL, JULY 23. French Open champion Gaston Gaudio beat Luis Horna of Peru 7-6(5), 7-6(1) on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the US$994,700 Generali Open.

In a battle of serves, the second-seeded Argentine improved his record against the seventh-seeded Peruvian to 3-0. Gaudio is 30-10 on clay this year and has won 20 of his last 22 matches.

The results: At Kitzbuehel (Generali Open): Quarterfinals: Gaston Gaudio bt Luis Horna 7-6(5), 7-6(1); Fernando Verdasco bt Feliciano Lopez 6-2, 6-3. Third round: Luis Horna bt Albert Costa 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-4; Florian Mayer bt Juan Monaco 6-4, 6-4; Gaston Gaudio bt Nikolay Davydenko 6-3, 6-3; Rainer Schuettler bt David Sanchez 6-0 (retd.); Fernando Verdasco bt Martin Vassalo Arguello 7-6(7), 6-3; Feliciano Lopez bt Santiago Ventura 6-3, 6-0; Nicolas Massu bt Tomas Berdych 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-4; Mariano Zabaleta bt Radek Stepanek 6-3, 7-5.

At Umag (Croatia Open): Second round: Alberto Martin bt Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 6-1; Alex Calatrava bt Tomas Zib 7-5, 6-3; Carlos Moya bt Zeljko Krajan 3-3 (retd.); Guillermo Canas bt Fernando Vicente 6-2, 6-1.

At Palermo (Palermo Women's International): Second round: Anna-Lena Groenefeld bt Emmanuelle Gagliardi 6-0, 6-3; Ludmila Cervanova bt Marta Domachowska 6-4, 6-4; Klara Koukalova bt Henrieta Nagyova 6-3, 6-0; Flavia Pennetta bt Yuliana Fedak 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-2. — Agencies

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