Stosur on track for second successive title
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Australia’s Samantha Stosur moved to within a match of winning her second successive WTA title yesterday beating Russia’s two-time grand slam winner Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-4 in their Kremlin Cup semifinal.
The 29-year-old Australian won her second title of the season and fifth of her career in Osaka, Japan, last Sunday. She was a runner-up to Dane Caroline Wozniacki in Moscow last year and will meet fifth seed Simona Halep of Romania, who saw off Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-1 to record her third win over the 22-year-old Russian.
Stosur, the 2011 US Open champion and 2010 French Open finalist, took 92 minutes to defeat 29-year-old Kuznetsova and move ahead in their head-to-head record 4-3.
Stosur, ranked 19th, was clinical in the first set breaking her opponent four times to take it in 38 minutes as Kuznetsova was able to only break back twice.
In the second set the Stosur broke the 2004 US Open and 2009 French Open champion twice again for a 5-1 lead.
Kuznetsova, though, showed character in breaking Stosur’s serve twice to get back into the set, only to undo all her good work by being broken once again in the 10th game.
“At the start we were both struggling to hold serve and she had love-40 again on me and my second service again and I was able to get out of that,” Stosur said.
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