Agnes Szavay of Hungary reached the semifinals of the Korea Open by beating defending champion Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-3 Friday. Szavay will face No.5-seeded Alisa Kleybanova after she beat fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova 6-1, 6-2. Top-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia beat Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, 6-2, 6-1 to set up a semifinal against Klara Zakopalova of Czech Republic, who beat former No.1 Dinara Safina of Russia 7-5, 6-3. Vesnina-Kudryavtseva final Elena Vesnina and Alla Kudryavtseva will play in an all-Russian final at the Tashkent Open Saturday, when both players will be vying for their first title. In Friday's semifinals, fourth-seeded Vesnina rallied in the third set to beat fifth-seeded Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Seventh-seeded Kudryavtseva, fresh from her first runner-up effort in Guangzhou, China Sunday, defeated Evgeniya Rodina 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. Vesnina, 4-1 down in the third, won five consecutive games to secure her second appearance in a final this season after finishing runner-up in Istanbul in July. Kudryavtseva opened strongly, winning the first set and breaking her opponent in the fifth game of the second to lead 3-2. But Rodina won four consecutive games to stay in the match, her first career semifinal appearance. In the third set, Kudryavtseva broke decisively in the eighth game and saved a break point before serving out the match. Cilic falls to Kohlschreiber In France, top seed Marin Cilic was knocked out in the quarterfinals of the Metz International with a 6-4, 6-1 defeat by Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber Friday. The sixth-seeded Kohlschreiber easily tamed the towering Croatian's booming serve and broke in the ninth game to take the opening set. He quickly opened a 3-0 lead in the second set and never looked back, setting up a semifinal meeting with local favorite Gilles Simon, the eighth seed. Simon saw off Belgian Xavier Malisse 7-5 4-6, 6-1 to book his place in the last four. German qualifier Mischa Zverev continued his fine run by beating Finn Jarko Nieminen 7-6, 6-3. He will face France's Richard Gasquet, the fourth seed, who beat Spanish seventh-seed Tommy Robredo 7-6, 7
