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Safina and Dementieva reach semi-finals
Published: 30 June, 2009, 19:15
Elena Dementieva (AFP Photo / Carl De Souza)
Dinara Safina and Elena Dementieva – the last remaining Russians at Wimbledon – have reached the final four stage.
For the top-ranked Safina this will be her first Wimbledon semifinal. On Tuesday, she came back from a set down to beat German teenager Sabine Lisicki 6-7, 6-4, 6-1.
The only previous match between the Russian and the German resulted in Safina’s losing. Perhaps because of that, the Russian looked shaky at the beginning. All-in-all, she double-faulted 15 times, including on set point in the tiebreaker. However, Dinara managed to break the 19-year-old Lisicki once in the second and four times in the decider. She converted her first match point when the German missed a backhand wide.
Safina will now meet five-time champion Venus Williams in the semi.
Another Russian, Elena Dementieva, faced much less opposition in her quarter-final against Francesca Schiavone of Italy.
Fourth-seeded Dementieva took a 5-0 lead in the first set and converted both of her break points in the second to seal the win 6-2, 6-1 in 66 minutes.
Dementieva will next play Serena Williams.
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I have just watched the match between S.Williams and E. Demetiava and I have been appalled and embarrssed by the biased commentary from the two commentators. It was unnecessary as both players were deserving of equal praise. the only person on court listening to the commentators was S. Williams. Please ask your commentators to be more respective of both players in future.