Friday, May 2, 2008

Top-seeded Garrigues marches into SAR semifinals

FEZ, Morocco (AP) -Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues advanced to the semifinals of the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, easily beating Ukraine's Olga Savchuk, 6-1, 6-1 on Friday.

Medina Garrigues next will face Greta Arn of Hungary, who likewise had an easy 6-1, 6-2 win over Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic.

No. 2 Gisela Dulko of Argentina won 6-0, 6-3 over Romania's seventh-seeded Sorana Cirstea in her quarterfinal.


She will face No. 4 Aravane Rezai of France, who needed three sets to beat sixth-seeded Alisa Kleybanova of Russia 5-7, 7-5, 7-5.




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