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Venus Williams in last four

BANGKOK: Six-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams cruised into the Bangkok Open semifinals on Friday with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over France’s Camille Pin.

She will square off with the tournament’s seventh-seed Flavia Pennetta of Italy, who came back from a set down to oust third-seeded Israeli Shahar Peer 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Bopanna-Rochus pair crashes out

The second-seeded Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden and Max Mirnyi of Belarus defeated Rohan Bopanna and Olivier Rochus of Belgium 6-3, 7-5 in the doubles semifinals of the 680,250 Euros Stockholm Open tennis tournament in Stockholm on Friday.

The results:

At Moscow (ATP & WTA Kremlin Cup): Women: Quarterfinals: Svetlana Kuznetsova bt Vera Dushevina 6-2, 6-2; Dinara Safina bt Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Elena Dementieva bt Victoria Azarenka 7-6(4), 6-2.

Men: Quarterfinals: Paul-Henri Mathieu bt Florent Serra 6-3, 6-3; Janko Tipsarevic bt Radek Stepanek 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

At Bangkok (WTA Bangkok Open): Quarterfinals: Flavia Pennetta bt Shahar Peer 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; Venus Williams bt Camille Pin 6-1, 6-1.

At Stockholm (ATP Stockholm Open): Second round: Jarkko Nieminen bt Peter Luczak 6-0, 6-4; Mario Ancic bt Bjorn Rehnquist 6-1, 6-3; Ivo Karlovic bt Joachim Johansson walkover; Arnaud Clement bt Michael Ryderstedt 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-3; Thomas Johansson bt Michael Llodra 6-4, 7-6(10); James Blake bt Frank Dancevic 6-3, 6-2.

At Vienna (ATP BA-CA Trophy): Second round: Novak Djokovic bt Tomas Zib 6-4, 6-4; Juan Ignacio Chela bt Juergen Melzer 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Feliciano Lopez bt Stefan Koubek 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Stanislas Wawrinka bt David Nalbandian 5-7, 6-3, 6-1. — Agencies

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