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Top-seeded Schiavone reaches semifinals at Prague Open

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The Canadian Press
7/17/2009 12:16:44 PM
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PRAGUE -- Top-seeded Francesca Schiavone routed Kateryna Bondarenko 6-1, 6-1 Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Prague Open.

The 30th-ranked Schiavone, who reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last month, will next face Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland, who upset fourth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 6-4, 6-4.

All three top-seeded players advanced to Saturday's semifinals.

Second-seeded Sybille Bammer of Austria defeated seventh-seeded Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 and will play third-seeded Iveta Benesova of the Czech Republic, who eliminated Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan 6-4, 6-1.

Francesca Schiavone (Photo: ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images)

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