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Julia Goerges beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-4, 6-2 on Friday to reach the Madrid Open semifinals.
The German player, who dispatched top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki in the third round, fired six aces and didn't drop a service game while breaking her Russian opponent three times for her 10th straight victory.
The 27th-ranked Goerges plays Victoria Azarenka of Belarus for a place in Sunday's final after the fourth-seeded player defeated Czech player Lucie Safarova 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.
Thomaz Bellucci was the first men's player to reach the semifinals when the Brazilian followed up his third-round upset of Andy Murray to win a battle of baseliners against seventh-seeded Tomas Berdych 7-6 (2), 6-3.
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