Venus Williams had to overcome late nerves in her two sets win over
Flavia Pennetta. Williams has been in impressive form so far in the
tournament with straight sets wins over Elena Vesnina
and Ana Ivanovic. The first set got off to an uneasy start for both
players with three consecutive breaks of serves. Pennetta finally
held her serve to move 3-1 up. Sensing the danger Williams broke back
immediately and in doing so took the next five games to take the first
set 63. The second set was going the former world number ones way
with Williams serving for the match at 5-3 up and even had a match
point. The Italian was however putting up resistance with great shots
and manage to break back on her fifth attempt. Despite the late
resurgence from Pennetta it wasn't to be as Williams broke again to
take the match on her second match point. The final scoreline was 75
63.
Awaiting
Williams in the semis will be 8th
seed Caroline Wozniacki after her 63 minuet dismissal of Sorana
Cirstea (61 62). Wozniacki was broken only once in the match and
produced 62% of first serves in. Her winner-error ratio was 9-9 and
she won 5/8 break points. This is a big confidence boost for
Wozniacki after her dissapointing 46 57 loss to Yanina Wickmayer last
week in Doha.
Going
in to the next match it will be the first time they have played
each other since Miami in 2008! Williams currently leads the head to
head 4-0 but considering how long it has been since they have played
each other. The head to head seems meaningless.
The
second semi final will be decided later on today. Top seed Sarena
Williams faces Jelena Jankovic while Carla Suarez Navarro plays Alize
Cornet.
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