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Serena sails into semifinals

Stanford (U.S.): Serena Williams, still trying to put the sting of her Wimbledon final defeat behind her, reached the semifinals of the 600,000-dollar WTA hardcourt tournament here on Friday.

The top-seeded American, playing in Stanford for the first time, punched her ticket to the final four with a 6-3, 6-1 quarterfinal victory over fifth-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder.

The results:

At Indianapolis: ATP Indianapolis Championships: Quarterfinals: Gilles Simon bt Tommy Haas 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; Sam Querrey bt Bobby Reynolds 6-1, 3-6, 6-3; James Blake bt Lu Yen-Hsun 6-2, 6-0; Dmitry Tursunov bt Paul Capdeville 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.

At Kitzbuhel: ATP Austria Open: Semifinals: Jurgen Melzer bt Potito Starace 6-4, 6-7(8), 6-3. Quarterfinals: Potito Starace bt Eduardo Schwank 6-1, 6-2; Juergen Melzer bt Rainer Schuettler 2-6, 7-5, 7-5; Juan Martin Del Potro bt Nicolas Devilder 6-2, 6-3; Victor Hanescu bt Brian Dabul 6-3, 6-4.

At Amersfoort: ATP Dutch Open: Quarterfinals: Oscar Hernandez bt Marcel Granollers 7-5, 6-2; Albert Montanes bt Jose Acasuso 6-0, 6-2; Marc Gicquel bt Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-4, 6-1; Steve Darcis bt Christophe Rochus 7-5, 6-3.

At Umag: ATP Croatia Open: Quarterfinals: Fernando Verdasco bt Mischa Zverev 7-5, 7-5; Igor Andreev bt Guillermo Canas 7-5, 6-4; Maximo Gonzalez bt Roko Karanusic 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(4); Fabio Fognini bt Carlos Moya 6-4, 6-3.

At Stanford: WTA Bank of the West Classic: Quarterfinals: Serena Williams bt Patty Schnyder 6-3, 6-1; Marion Bartoli bt Anna Chakvetadze 6-3, 6-4; Ai Sugiyama bt Dominika Cibulkova 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 5-3 (retd.); Aleksandra Wozniak bt Samantha Stosur 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.

At Bad Gastein: WTA Gastein Ladies: Second Round: Agnes Szavay bt Melanie Klaffner 3-6, 7-6(8), 7-6(3); Mariya Koryttseva bt Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5); Pauline Parmentier bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. — Agencies

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