Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain advanced to the Hobart
International semifinals with a 6-1, 5-7, 6-1 win over
eighth-seeded Gisela Dulko of Argentina on Thursday.
Medina Garrigues was up a set and 3-0 in the second when
Dulko staged a comeback to take the second set.
"I started playing a few too many short balls which played to
Gisela's strength and allowed her back into the game," Medina
Garrigues said. "The break at the end of the second set allowed me
to calm my nerves and in the end I felt I won fairly comfortably."
Medina Garrigues will play Alona Bondarenko on Friday.
Earlier, the fourth-seeded Ukrainian defeated China's Zheng Jie
7-5, 7-5.
Unseeded Italian Sara Errani won her quarterfinal over
Belgian qualifier Kirsten Flipkens 6-3, 6-4. Errani will play
second-seeded Shahar Peer of Israel, who beat fifth-seeded Carla
Suarez Navarro of Spain 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5 in a night quarterfinal.
