Wozniacki, Li through to semis
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August 27, 2011, Saturday
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TOP-RANKED Caroline Wozniacki still had her father coaching her on Thursday as she advanced to the semifinals of the New Haven Open with a 7-5, 6-3 win over 19-year-old American Christina McHale.
Wozniacki is 15-0 at the WTA's final tuneup before the US Open and is the tournament's three-time defending champion.
Last week, after losing to McHale in Cincinnati, Wozniacki said she would be changing coaches. But Piotr Wozniacki was back by her side when she called for a coach during the first set on Thursday. "Well, you know, I don't want to talk too much about it because the other coach I've been working with, he doesn't want to have his name out. I have to respect that," she said.
After getting some advice from dad, Wozniacki broke McHale to win a close first set, and again in the eighth game of the second set.
Wozniacki's semifinal opponent will be third-seeded Francesca Schiavone, who advanced when Anabel Medina Garrigues withdrew due to a knee injury.
Second-seed Li Na of China endured several hours of rain delays and three sets of tennis before advancing in her quarterfinal, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, over Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Li will play Czech qualifier Petra Cetkovska who beat fourth-seed Marion Bartoli 7-5, 7-5.
Li's match was supposed to be played at 1pm, but didn't start until after 3:30pm and was stopped for more than two hours after the first set because of rain at the Connecticut Tennis Center.
When it finally resumed, Pavlyuchenkova grabbed the momentum, winning four games in a row to go up 4-2, and eventually take the set.
The French Open champion broke the Russian to go up 1-0 in the third, and finished off the match after Pavlyuchenkova twisted her right ankle in the second game of the set and needed a medical timeout.
In North Carolina, Andy Roddick and John Isner set up a mouthwatering semifinal between two big servers after the Americans won their respective quarterfinal matches at the Winston-Salem Open.
Top-seeded Roddick crushed seventh seed Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-1, 6-4 while fourth seed Isner recovered from a shaky start to beat eighth-seeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Ninth-seeded Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky ended his golden run when he was beaten 3-6, 7-6, 6-2 by French qualifier Julien Benneteau.
Wozniacki is 15-0 at the WTA's final tuneup before the US Open and is the tournament's three-time defending champion.
Last week, after losing to McHale in Cincinnati, Wozniacki said she would be changing coaches. But Piotr Wozniacki was back by her side when she called for a coach during the first set on Thursday. "Well, you know, I don't want to talk too much about it because the other coach I've been working with, he doesn't want to have his name out. I have to respect that," she said.
After getting some advice from dad, Wozniacki broke McHale to win a close first set, and again in the eighth game of the second set.
Wozniacki's semifinal opponent will be third-seeded Francesca Schiavone, who advanced when Anabel Medina Garrigues withdrew due to a knee injury.
Second-seed Li Na of China endured several hours of rain delays and three sets of tennis before advancing in her quarterfinal, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, over Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Li will play Czech qualifier Petra Cetkovska who beat fourth-seed Marion Bartoli 7-5, 7-5.
Li's match was supposed to be played at 1pm, but didn't start until after 3:30pm and was stopped for more than two hours after the first set because of rain at the Connecticut Tennis Center.
When it finally resumed, Pavlyuchenkova grabbed the momentum, winning four games in a row to go up 4-2, and eventually take the set.
The French Open champion broke the Russian to go up 1-0 in the third, and finished off the match after Pavlyuchenkova twisted her right ankle in the second game of the set and needed a medical timeout.
In North Carolina, Andy Roddick and John Isner set up a mouthwatering semifinal between two big servers after the Americans won their respective quarterfinal matches at the Winston-Salem Open.
Top-seeded Roddick crushed seventh seed Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-1, 6-4 while fourth seed Isner recovered from a shaky start to beat eighth-seeded Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. Ninth-seeded Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky ended his golden run when he was beaten 3-6, 7-6, 6-2 by French qualifier Julien Benneteau.
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