Monday, June 1, 2009

2 doubles teams into French Open semifinals

12 seeds Victoria Azarenka and Elena Vesnina advanced to the French Open semifinals today with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 win over 16th seeds Yan Zi and Zheng Jie. 3rd seeds (and 2007 champions) Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruana Pascual also advanced by defeating 11th seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Patty Schnyder 7-6, 6-2.

In mixed doubles, top seeds Liezel Huber and Bob Bryan advanced to the semifinals, with a 1-6, 6-4, 12-10 win over Ai Sugiyama and Andre Sa. Also advancing to the semifinals were Vania King and Marcelo Melo. 3rd seeds Lisa Raymond and Marcin Matkowski were upset by Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Mark Knowles.

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