MOSCOW — Caroline Wozniacki, former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic and 2011 US Open champion Samantha Stosur advanced to the Kremlin Cup semifinals Friday. Ivanovic beat Vesna Dolonc 6-4, 6-1, while the top-seeded Stosur defeated Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-3. Stosur won six consecutive games in the first set but trailed 3-1 in the second set. She recovered with a break in the sixth game and later served out the match at love. The Australian will next face Ivanovic, the 2008 French Open champion in Saturday's semifinals. Earlier, Wozniacki struggled to beat defending champion Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-7 (1), 6-1. Wozniacki, another former No. 1-ranked player, won four consecutive games in the first set and later took advantage of an ailing Cibulkova, who was playing with her right hip bandaged and took a medical timeout while trailing 2-1 in the third set. The 11th-ranked Wozniacki still has a chance to overtake Marion Bartoli of France at No. 10 by the end of the season if she wins titles in Moscow and at the season-ending Tournament of Champions, scheduled for Oct. 30 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In her seventh semifinal this season, Wozniacki will face Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden. The 46th-ranked Arvidsson, who is looking for her second title this season, broke twice in each set to eliminate the only Russian left at the Kremlin Cup, seventh-seeded Maria Kirilenko, 6-3, 6-3. In the men's tournament, second-seeded Andreas Seppi of Italy advanced to the semifinals by beating Tatsuma Ito of Japan 6-2, 6-1. Seppi, who won his second career title in Belgrade in May, will next play Malek Jaziri, who became the first Tunisian to reach an ATP semifinal when he beat Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic 7-6 (5), 6-3. “I hope I'm lucky enough to make my first ATP final,” Jaziri said. “But anyway, I'm already happy with my performance here.” But French qualifier Edouard Roger-Vasselin, who knocked out top seed Alexandr Dolgopolov on Thursday, could not repeat his heroics, going down to giant Croatian Ivo Karlovic 7-6 6-3. Baghdatis, Almagro thru Third-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain reached the Stockholm Open semifinals when he dispatched former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt 6-1, 6-4 Friday. The 12th-ranked Almagro, still contending for a place in the eight-man ATP Finals, held off Hewitt in the second set, breaking the Australian wild card for 5-4 with a smash and then held serve to seal the quarterfinal win. Almagro next faces either Tomas Berdych or Russian Mikhail Youzhny. Earlier, Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis beat Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis 6-3 7-6 (7-4). The 2009 champion will face either top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky on Saturday. Berdych reached the quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Estonia's Jurgen Zopp Thursday. Tsonga, also hoping to qualify for London, advanced with a 6-3, 7-6 (6) win over Go Soeda of Japan. The Frenchman faces Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine in the quarterfinals after Stakhovsky beat Spain's Feliciano Lopez, 7-6 (5), 7-5.
