SHARAPOVA BEATS
WOZNIACKI
Defending champion Maria Sharapova moved into the
semi-finals of the Madrid open for a third consecutive year with a 6-1, 3-6,
6-3 win over Caroline Wozniacki on Thursday.
The Russian showed no ill effects early on from her marathon
win over Caroline Garcia on Wednesday as she raced through the first set.
Sharapova broke again in the first game of the second set,
but a host of errors handed the momentum back to the world number five and
Wozniacki served out to take the match into a deciding set.
The third set followed a similar pattern, except this time
it was Wozniacki who failed to build on an early break as Sharapova’s power
from the baseline proved too much for the Dane.
And after breaking in the penultimate game, Sharapova
rounded off victory in just over two hours on court to set up a semi-final
meeting with either Lucie Safarova or Svetlana Kuznetsova.
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